about people talking to other people, political things,

都是关于人们之间的谈话政治事件
places, and how houses are arranged.

景点以及房屋时怎么设计安排
But there is a sense that these are social worlds,

但感觉那些都是社会圈子
not just patterns, even though at the beginning that's how Oedipa sees them.

不仅仅是图案即使最初奥狄芭看到它们时就是这样
As she goes further and further in to her search for knowledge--

随着她调查的深入
and finally her abandonment of that search of knowledge--

最终她放弃调查
she sees more and more that this is not just pattern,

她看到的越来越多不仅仅是图案
that it's these storm systems of suffering and need.

这是那些暴风系统的痛楚和需求
So, I think this is what Pynchon brings to the string of meditations

我认为这就是品钦带到那一连串冥想里的东西
on what language can do, and what the novel is for,

关于语言的作用以及小说为什么存在
that I began my lecture today with, just recapping for you.

我在讲座开始就讲了这里只是重复一遍
He's trying to imagine a novel

他尝试去想象一部小说