In that moment Sal supplies the answer for why Dean came, "never knew why he had come anyway," and then Sal supplies "except to see me," and his own pain and tears are routed through Laura.

在那刻萨尔说出了为什么迪安会来的理由，“他也搞不清楚为什么来“，然后给了答案,“只为了想看看我“，但他的眼泪在劳拉面前被击溃。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, you can have a kind of system of symbols that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more that her search will produce, and that is the moment of compassion.

所以你能够有种珍贵和令人愉快的象征系统,它能让你向它屈服,就像对Oedipa一样，不过在最后她的寻找得到了更多的东西,这就是同情的瞬间，我想提出的是眼泪贯穿了正本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选