an incredibly rich world of human detritus, of history.

一个丰富得令人置信的人类社会琐事和历史
In Gravity's Rainbow he did enormous amounts of research in

在《地心引力的彩虹》里他从二战伦敦报纸上
newspapers from the Second World War in London

做了大量调查
where some of the novel is set, so that you can go to newspapers and

很多小说都在那发行因此你可以从报纸上
find the ads that he talks about in the novels.

找到那些讨论小说的广告
So, he combines this very attentive set of details,

他把这些很引人注意的细节联系起来
which are not always, and often are not at all,

这些细节并非常有也常常一点都没有
the aesthetic details with which Nabokov filled Lolita.

纳博科夫把这些美学细节写进《洛丽塔》
Remember, when I asked you about

记得我曾问你们
the specificity of America in On the Road,

《在路上》里美国的独特之处吗
and I asked you to think about whether there was anything there at all?

还问你们是否还有其他的观点
In On the Road, there isn't anything.

《在路上》里没有其他的了