along with occasional tear gas and other contaminants.

偶尔夹杂着催泪瓦斯和其他污染物的气味
One may sniff traces of that air in the Funhouse.

开心馆里的人或许会努力感受那些气息
I myself found it more invigorating than disturbing.

我自己认为这更能令人精力充沛而不是不安
May the reader find these stories likewise.

或许读者也能发现同样的故事
It's a very interesting little comparison he makes at the end.

他在最后略微得做了一个非常有趣的对比
He takes that whole foment of 1960s politics and counterculture,

他煽动了60年代的纷争和反主流文化
and essentially he says, "I found that invigorating

实质上他的意思是我感觉那气息令人精力充沛
as I hope you will find these stories invigorating,"

因此我希望你们也有同感
as if the stories in this very--

正如这个看上去
almost, seemingly, hermetically-- sealed literary world

几乎封闭的文学界里的故事一样
that he offers us are somehow meant to

他告诉我们如何去
have the effects of a whole decade of foment, social foment.

正视这十年动乱社会动乱的影响