Michael Meyer说“试想哪天早晨醒来发现切尔西（译者注：伦敦西南部一住宅区 为艺术家和作家的聚居地），然后是格林尼治村（译者注：指纽约或其他城市的文人、艺术家等的聚居区）被大商场取代了”。

“Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that Chelsea, then Greenwich Village, have been replaced by malls, ” he said.

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在当时的孟加拉，人们时兴给每个文人指定一个与西方某作家相类似的地位。

It was then the fashion in Bengal to assign each man of letters a place in comparison with a supposed compeer in the West.

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虽然奥康纳常被视为非主流作家——身体有恙，行为古怪的三流文人——其实，从一开始，她就是圈内人。

Although O’Connor is commonly perceived as an outsider artist—the crippled, eccentric scribbler—she was in fact from the beginning very much an insider.

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