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A hitch in our limerick.(Letter to the editor)

National Review

| May 22, 2006 | Hitchens, Christopher | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If in his May 8 letter to the editor Ernest Lefever is citing the late Lyn Nofziger correctly, then I am very much afraid that he is doing a disservice both to the departed and to the limerick. At least in its modern post-Edward Lear form, the latter simply must observe certain conventions, chief among them the rhythm. Your published limerick went:

 
   A Boston Cardinal named Law 
   Had an unforgivable flaw. 
   He greeted pedophiles 
   With winks and with smiles 
   ...
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