He says someone with a flair for cocktail party conversation, a witticism, would say this. He gives it to us, but he frames it as an affectation of style.

他说在一个鸡尾酒派对上交谈的调酒师，这是妙语，他给我们了，但是他将其用娇柔做作的风格包装起来。

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So, what Salinger, I think, shows us is that affectation, without something like love, is just affectation, and that's what Lane represents. That's the affectation of literature without any human connection.

所以，Salinger向我们展示的是，这种娇柔做作，不像是喜爱只是娇柔造作，那也是莱恩代表的，那个文学的矫揉造作,并没有任何的与人的联系。

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