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Notes & asides.(Letter to the editor)
* Dear Mr. Buckley: I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your latest book, Miles Gone By, which I found to be very informative, interesting, and entertaining, with your usual impeccable writing skills and gift of concinnity, combining intellectual cogency, humor, and wit, a charming characteristic that attracted my attention, over the years, causing me to buy and read all your books.
There is, however, one word (encephalophonic) that you use in Miles on page 74 ("... from the encephalophonic Mr. Rodell ...") that I would like for you, if you will be kind enough, to define for me. You have also used this same word in some of your other books. I have consulted, to no avail, the following sources: the American Heritage Dictionary (fourth edition), Webster's New World College Dictionary (fourth edition), and the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993).
With warmest regards,
J. Gilberto Quezada
San Antonio, Tex.
Dear Mr. Quezada: I'm afraid I have to let you down. I can't find the word in any dictionary. It was first used derisively about me in a book review which bemoaned that I had at my disposal simultaneously books, a magazine, a newspaper column, and a television program. Thus I was "encephalophonically" besieging the literate world. As you point out, I use the word myself, to suggest a sur rounding besiegement of the brain.
Cordially, WFB
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