If this were the end of the story though, it would be a kind of boring story and it's not the end of the story.

如果故事到这儿就戛然而止，未免过于乏味,故事还在继续。

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Sparta starts at an early point, sends out a colony to southern Italy at some time, probably early, they sent out a colony to an island in the Aegean Sea, Melos, and then they stopped and never sent out another colony.

斯巴达要早一些,某一时期在意大利南部建设过殖民地,也许更早的时候,曾在爱琴海上的岛屿米洛斯殖民,然后他们的殖民活动戛然而止,并从未再开始

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Whether that would ever happen, if Pynchon had decided to let us in on the secret, I don't know. Pynchon, instead, chooses to end the novel before that moment, and so we're left with a kind of emptiness.

如果说Pynchon是想要，让这成为一个谜题的话，那我也不知道，究竟出现了，没有取而代之的是Pynchon选择了,在那一幕之前让小说戛然而止，让我们陷入了，一片空白之中。

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