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THE TENDER TROPE

Concerning George Bradley’s poem “A Brief History” (Aug. 4): I just love profundity, but it’s tricky.

One silly trope, one clever little alliteration, and all goes hollow. “Quasars” do not “Quaver.”

FRED SCIFERS

DOWNEY

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