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
Last time, in addition to introducing that idea of language to you,

上次除了介绍这个语言的观点给你们
I conducted a reading of the first part of the novel

我还朗读了这本小说的第一部分
where I suggested that Kerouac tells a story that is not so much about

我提出凯鲁亚克讲的与其说是一个
the escape from an American consumer culture of the postwar period

逃脱战后美国消费主义文化的故事
as it is a story about the absolute immersion in a culture of consumption.

不如说它是一个浸染在消费文化中的故事
So, what Sal Paradise consumes on the road extends from pie,

萨尔·帕拉迪斯路上消费的涉及馅饼