Of course, some people might apply those adjectives to Mailer himself,

当然有些人也这样形容梅勒本人
but that's what Mailer said. "On the Road"

但梅勒确实这样评价《在路上》
This is from a critic named George Dardess;

这来自一个叫George Dardess评论家
this is from a 1974 article about On the Road--

1974年的一篇文章里
"is a love story,

它是一个关于爱的故事
not a travelogue and certainly not a call to revolution."

不是游记当然也不是革命的号召
So, I put these up here to sort of sit in the background of

这两段话放在这是给你们提供一个背景
what I'm going to talk to you about today

我今天要说的内容
about the ultimate payoff for Kerouac's effort and the Beats' effort,

关于凯鲁亚克和垮掉一代的努力所获得的成就
more generally, to imagine a language that is the adequate analog to experience,

概括地说是想象一种近似于经历的语言
a language that is itself a kind of experience,

一种自己本身就是一段经历的语言
and further, that is an ecstatic, mystical kind of experience.

那甚至是一种如痴如醉不可思议的经历