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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).

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William F. Buckley Jr.

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).