It suggests that he's not the active party here,

暗示了他并不是这里的主动角色
that somehow he has been drawn into this enterprise,

不知怎么的他被拖进了这个故事框架
into this narrative, maybe against his will.

和叙事结构中说不定这是违背他本意的
I think you can see this as duplicitous, so I want to look a

我想你们能看出这里的两面性所以
little bit at how this is duplicitous,

我想稍微深入一点来研究这种两面性
and this is where desire comes back into the braid of my argument.

所以欲望也会由此重回我的观点
There is a sentence on page 164 I want to direct your attention to.

在164页上有一句话我要给你们指出来
Desire, that urge to inhabit or fill the lack of whatever it is,

欲望迫切地渴望什么或是弥补欠缺
has a structural relation to language in Roth's work.

它与罗斯的作品语言有着结构上的联系
So, desire has a structural relation to language.

欲望与语言有结构上的联系
And I think there is no better example of it--

我认为没有比下面这句更好的例子了--
and there's perhaps no better example of Roth's ecstatic sentence

恐怕在罗斯所有迷狂的句子结构中