来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第9集 第9集》
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Think about this vision of an American mystical oneness当你阅读《拍卖第四十九批》的时候 -
when you go to read Crying of Lot 49思考一下这种美国式虚无的统一性 -
'cause you're going to see something quite similar there.因为你将会看到一些十分相似的东西 -
There's actually a wonderful episode in On the Road that is nearly《在路上》的某些精彩章节几乎是 -
a carbon copy of what you'll see later in Crying of Lot 49,你接下来将会看到的《拍卖第四十九批》的复制 -
where Dean looks down on Salt Lake City at night,狄安在夜幕中俯瞰整个盐湖城 -
and he looks at the pattern of the lights down below him.望着脚下灯火辉煌的城市 -
Oedipa Maas in Crying of Lot 49 will sit up on a bluff《拍卖第四十九批》的奥狄芭·马斯在悬崖上 -
overlooking San Narciso, and she'll look down at the pattern of light.眺望圣纳西索 她同样看到脚下灯火辉煌 -
And it's an important moment in that novel,在那部小说这是一个很重要的时刻 -
a moment of religious revelation,一个宗教启示的时刻 -
but what's being revealed remains in Pynchon quite difficult to pin down.至于揭示了什么 也许只有品钦自己知道