a particular place, which is also a way to say

从某个具体的地点说话的
that Ruth is gone; somehow Ruth is absent from us.

也就是说露丝已经离开不在我们身边
And this relates to my point last time

这和我上次提出的观点有关
about how identity is imagined as voice.

即如何把身份表现为话语角度
Ruth, the historical Ruth, the character Ruth, a Ruth that we

露丝现实的露丝书中的人物露丝
could situate in any concrete position in the world,

那个我们可以在真实时间中定位的露丝
has vanished from the frame of this novel.

从小说的框架中消失了
What we're left with is her voice. The logic here is that

我们只能听到她的话语这里的逻辑是
vanishing makes the voice totally present;

实体消失了话语才能完全地存在
that full human presence is in the voice, somehow inherent.

话语中完整的人物是一种内在的存在
That's why there are all of these meditations on what would happen if

这就是人们有很多这样的思考的原因
various people either did disappear or didn't disappear.

即人物消失了或没消失都会发生什么