and her daughter finally so longs to inhabit that story

而她的女儿长期沉溺于这个故事之中
that she goes to Soaphead Church.

以至于她找到了苏普海德·丘其
And this is how she ends up,

这便是她的最终选择
and the cost of inhabiting that story is derangement.

而沉溺于故事的代价便是精神错乱
If John Barth's characters

如果约翰·巴斯塑造的人物
inhabit stories, stories that precede them in the world--

沉溺于先于他们出现的故事中
Remember, this is why it's important

这是一个非常重要的原因
that the narrator of the first story in that collection is the sperm.

为什么在文集中第一个故事的讲述者是精子的原因
The sperm comes already stocked

精子已然保持了
with the phrases and patterns of prior literature.

较早前文学的措辞和形式
Well, Toni Morrison advances an analysis that is not so different.

托妮·莫里森提出了一套类似的分析
Pecola came into the world,

贝克拉来到这个世界