Pynchon wants to imagine a very physical repository for the social, and especially for the human, affective dimensions of the social.

一种情感上的社会维度，这就是为什么Oedipa身边的男生。

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I don't like that idea. Especially because in the vast majority of physical punishment cases,

我不喜欢这个观念。尤其是考虑到大多数体罚的案例，

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