So here, she's kind of enthralled with the idea - that these gemlike clues--that's a very Nabokovian moment-- the gemlike clues that are gathering around her would be a compensation for the loss of that real access to revelation.

这是很Nabokov化的一个瞬间,在她身边聚集的线索-,是对她失去了真正的了解真相的途径的一个补偿,这有着宗教意味。

1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

So, you can have a kind of system of symbols that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more that her search will produce, and that is the moment of compassion.

所以你能够有种珍贵和令人愉快的象征系统,它能让你向它屈服,就像对Oedipa一样，不过在最后她的寻找得到了更多的东西,这就是同情的瞬间，我想提出的是眼泪贯穿了正本书。

1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课