Sleepy Hollow's gone; Washington Irving's dead and his books are rotting in our estimation year by year—then let the graveyard rot too, as it should, as all things should.

华盛顿·欧文死了， 据我们估计， 他的书年复一年地腐烂——那就让墓地也腐烂吧， 一切都应该如此。