"Chuckle," indeed. Apropos your remarks: why I believe you are accusing Mr. Buckley of unmitigated affective sesquipedalianism. The concatenary effects of your doubtless humorously intended riposte, taken pari passu, might possibly lead one to accuse you of lèse majesté.
The wretched state of your dormitory habit is certainly no concern of ours. Suggest a flagon of the old aqua vitae, instead of aiming this denigrating charge of gongorism at the doyen of conservative thought in America.
I for one, find his writings, although preternaturally clad in penumbral classical allusion, to be succinct: indeed, to the point. Finest writer since Pliny the Elder, or was it Pliny the Younger? Brevitas anima scientiae, verbum sat sapientes, plus que ça change, plus que c'est la même chose
.... are you asleep yet?
.... are you asleep yet?
Zzzzzzzzzz...huh? What? Who goes there!
(chuckle)