Well, I think there are a couple of points, a couple of reasons why

我想巴斯这样做的原因有几个
Barth wants to do that, and actually related to your initial

而且和你们喜欢这篇作品的理由相似
point about why you liked this, that it was-- how did you say that?--

那就是-- 你是怎么表述的
- it was the most-- - Profound joke--

-最 -最深刻的笑话
Profound joke.

深刻的笑话
It is a parody of all the meanings of life that philosophy has offered

它仿效了所有广为人知的人生哲理
up to us over the ages, so it kind of runs through them in

并通过精子叙述者的一位
the voice of our narrator sperm's pal, who is now gone

英年早逝的精子好友之口
and dead before him.

贯穿作品
So, we get a kind of wisdom in a parodic form.

这种游戏似的模仿格式给予我们智慧
There are other points, however, and if you look on page 4

但别忽视了其他的关键点请看第四页
we can see just a little example of one of them.

我们看到一个小例子