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
the name of Vladimir Nabokov into the prose.

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的名字显示于散文中
So, right away, in this moment of layered narratives,

马上在这个分层叙述中
a framed narrative around another narrative,

一个叙述框架环绕着另一个叙述
there is a sort of instability in the layers.

层次之间存在着一种不稳定性