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Dear Mr. Buckley:

Oh, dear. Much as I hate to arouse your antagonism (see your answer to Dr. Klay, “Notes & Asides,” Aug. 19), I’m afraid I just gotta mention one or two things which appear to have slipped your mind. Now, I take your word for the Diabelli Variations, but are you sure it’s Sophocles’ Antigone you’re referring to? Because, you see, Antigone, far from hating her brother (whose name, by the way, is Polyneices, with an “e”), actually loved him very much, and spent the body of the play bending her considerable talents to the task of giving him a decent burial, this thing having been denied Polyneices by the Wicked Uncle, King Creon.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

Dear Mr. Buckley:

Oh, dear. Much as I hate to arouse your antagonism (see your answer to Dr. Klay, “Notes & Asides,” Aug. 19), I’m afraid I just gotta mention one or two things which appear to have slipped your mind. Now, I take your word for the Diabelli Variations, but are you sure it’s Sophocles’ Antigone you’re referring to? Because, you see, Antigone, far from hating her brother (whose name, by the way, is Polyneices, with an “e”), actually loved him very much, and spent the body of the play bending her considerable talents to the task of giving him a decent burial, this thing having been denied Polyneices by the Wicked Uncle, King Creon.