One is that racial secrecy is really

一个是种族方面的隐私
the only kind of secrecy that matters,

是唯一要紧的隐私
because being Negro is the only thing that one would hide.

因为黑鬼身份是人唯一要隐瞒的东西
It also means that these people are

还有一个意思是这些写人
just as blank as Faunia and Coleman;

跟弗妮亚和科尔曼一样无身份
so there is a somewhat pernicious racial simplification going on, here.

所以这里产生了一种有些恶意的种族简化
It's somewhat related to the simplification of thinking that

这跟将同性恋简化成欲望
homoerotics is the desire for the same.

有一定的相关性
What both of these logics leave out is that point

这两个逻辑的共同出发点是
that is insisted upon, actually, earlier in the novel,

小说的前半部分所坚持的论点
which is that the other fellow always has a life you can't know,

也就是子不知鱼之乐
that it's simply the otherness of any individual person that keeps you

你只能看到别人生活的表面现象