it's the religious sense of the capitalized Word that comes back a

这个大写Word的宗教观念在小说的结尾
couple of times towards the end of the novel, the epileptic Word.

那些疯疯癫癫的话里出现了好几次
The "Word," capitalized, always refers back to the beginning

这个大写的Word涉及《约翰信条》的开始
of the Gospel of John, where John describes Christ as the

在信条里约翰把耶稣描写成
Word made flesh: "The Word was with God and the Word was God and the

造就众生的神他与上帝同在他就是上帝
Word was made flesh and came to dwell among us."

这命令被造就并存在于我们当中
So, Pynchon is using that religious vocabulary: not just the religious

品钦在用宗教词汇不仅用皮尔特的
imagery of the Pieta, but the religious vocabulary of the

宗教意象而且还有大写化Word的宗教词汇
capitalized Word.

宗教词汇
So, you can have a kind of system of symbols

如果你有玉石般的令人愉快的
that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it

的符号系统你需要服从于它
as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more

正如它之于奥狄芭一样但在最后她会调查出