So, Pynchon is using that religious vocabulary: not just the religious imagery of the Pieta, but the religious vocabulary of the capitalized Word.

这个宗教的词语：,不仅仅是圣像雕塑，还有这个大写的“Word“

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It's not just the religious instant of looking down at San Narciso; it's the religious sense of the capitalized Word that comes back a couple of times towards the end of the novel, the epileptic Word.

这还是在书的尾端;,出现了很多次的大写的“Word“,癫痫的“Word“,大写的“Word“指的是。

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