Critics like to dwell on their expensive dinners and their cosy approval of one another, and to contrast to their delicate literary stomachs to the gusty appetites of Mark Twain or Whitman.

• 批评家们喜欢攻击他们在饮食上过于挥霍，彼此互相标榜，还拿他们文学上的细腻作风和马克?吐温与惠特曼的风格相对比。