So make a note in your notebook.

所以在你们笔记本上记下来
By the end of the novel, I would like you to know who this is.

当小说完结时我希望你们知道她是谁
Vivian Darkbloom: if you take those letters,

维维安·达克布隆:如果你们将他名字
you can spell Vladimir Nabokov.

字母重组你就能拼出弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫
Vivian Darkbloom is one of Nabokov's palindromic versions of his name.

维维安·达克布隆是纳博科夫回文版名字
He inserts these even in his autobiography, by the way.

他甚至把这些加入到自己的传记中
He attributes certain things to Vivian Darkbloom

他将一些事都归功于维维安·达克布隆
and other kinds of characters of such names.

以及其他顶着这类名字的角色
So, here, you can't avoid the sense that,

此处你也避不开这种感觉
even though this is attributed to John Ray,

即使是归于约翰·雷名下
in fact there is some other voice here,

但事实上还是有其它人的声音
and it's a voice that can't help but drop

那个声音又将