It's that old chestnut: life imitating art, or art imitating life?

还是那个老话题：是生活模仿艺术，还是艺术模仿生活？

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The result is a bizarre case of art imitating life - only for life to imitate art back again.

这是“艺术来源于生活”的一个奇特个案——而恰恰是为了让生活再回过头来模仿艺术。

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The group, and an expanding chorus of fretful bloggers, reckon that life is imitating art.

这个网上小组，和不断扩大的博客们的共同呼声，都认为生活就是模仿艺术。

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