Although I didn't tell anyone about my secret world, I decided to spend my life studying the microscope.

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So the secret to personal identity on this new proposal isn't sameness of body, is sameness of personality.

所以新提案中人格同一性的关键,不在于同样的肉体,而在于同样的人格。

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Well there's no secret there, the players are -- let's just write it down why don't we.

没什么好解释的,参与人是,让我们把它写在这吧

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Whether that would ever happen, if Pynchon had decided to let us in on the secret, I don't know. Pynchon, instead, chooses to end the novel before that moment, and so we're left with a kind of emptiness.

如果说Pynchon是想要，让这成为一个谜题的话，那我也不知道，究竟出现了，没有取而代之的是Pynchon选择了,在那一幕之前让小说戛然而止，让我们陷入了，一片空白之中。

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