April 11, 1975
Dear Mr. Buckley:
I am a teacher with credentials in English, political science, history, mathematics, humanities, and Japanese, and yet I barely have the ability to decipher your vulgar prose. I can’t recall ever having seen such an obvious search for and display of archaic vocabulary and overall obfuscation in an apparent attempt to be “the learned one.” You stink!
You are a complete joke, a pedant, a phony conservative. You’re an upstart. You may be a New Englander and a Yale man, but, in no way do you have the class of a Cox, a Richardson, or even a Kennedy.
Yours truly,
John M. Herlihy
Seaside, Calif.Dear Mr. Herlihy: Sorry. English, political science, history, mathematics, humanities, and Japanese are not quite enough. But don’t give up, Herlihy. Don’t ever give up.—WFB
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I’m trying to wake myself up here this morning. At eleven o’clock. For some reason, the last couple mornings have felt…labored. This is a problem because my morning task at work is a three hour stretch of data entry, and–if you’ve ever had a data entry job you know this–when you’re not fully awake data entry becomes a series of small agonizing mistakes and it takes you twice as long to get anything done.
So, because my boss has the day off, I’m drawing out my morning in the hope that I’ll wake up a bit and my brain-to-finger nerves will start communicating better.
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