Pynchon, instead, chooses to end the novel before that moment,

品钦反而选择在那一刻之前结束小说
and so we're left with a kind of emptiness.

给我们留下想象的空间
We're left with the multiple options that she laments.

对于她哀叹方式的多种选择权
If you look on 146-147, she rehearses all the possibilities of meaning,

翻到148和147页她演练所有意图的可能性
and her conclusion, finally, is this:

最终她的结论是
San Narciso was a name, an incident among our climatic records of dreams

圣·纳西索是个名字一件我们追梦过程中的小事
and what dreams became among our accumulated daylight,

以及梦想在日积月累中变成了什么
a moment's squall line or tornado's touchdown among the higher,

美好瞬间的航线或者龙卷风在更高
more continental solemnities,

更大陆性的地方肆意着陆
storm systems of group suffering and need, prevailing winds of affluence.

民众在暴风系统中的痛楚和需求盛行风吹入
There was the true continuity.

存在一种连续性
San Narciso had no boundaries.

圣·纳西索没有范围