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"I am sending you a letter for publication (it being judged suitable for publication by you) on a certain condition, which I hope you will respect. The letter, here attached, was prompted by Mr. Melvin Maddocks' article on language, which is a subject of serious concern for myself."

"Mr. Melvin Maddocks, deploring, in your issue of March 8th, under the title of The Limitations of Language, what people do to language, and do to one another with it, himself supplies illustration of that which he deplores. The title is the major example of this. His complaint is not that people are suffering from limitations inherent in language, but that they inflict abuses of it on one another."

"THE LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE: In J.M.G. Le Clezio's novel The Flood, the anti-hero is a young man suffering from a unique malady. Words--the deluge of daily words--have overloaded his circuits."