On April 2, 2004, the Poughkeepsie Journal published a letter to the editor, reproduced below. In response, Mark S. Meritt responded with his own. It turned out to be one of more than two dozen responses, of which the Journal published a handful, including an abridged version of Mark’s letter, reproduced here in full.
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Posts from ‘April, 2004’
To Poughkeepsie Journal, Re: Local Names
The Obtuse Angel of Irreversible Alterations (& Irresistible Alliterations)
Everybody knows (by now) about Adam and Eve and ‘Let there be light’ all cast into (surreptitious) darkness by an overzealous Angel of Such: Beelzebub. Lesser known, though, is Beelzebub’s younger brother Bozzlebub, who is more commonly known, to those few who know him, as Boz.
This eclipse is not so unusual; many sibling sets have [...]
