NP literary insults

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> <<An animated adenoid.
>     - Norman Douglas, on Ford Maddox Ford>>
> 
Hemingway called Ford an upended hogshead.

Relatedly, the composer Virgil Thompson wrote this to a critic who had given 
him an unfavorable review.

"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house.   Your review is before me.   
Soon it shall be behind me."


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