INGLEWOOD SPEAKS

It is appalling that you chose to print the letter from Alexander Nicolayev-Anders (Dec. 8) while many other important letters never get printed.

And it is incredible that people who are in the business of analyzing and evaluating other people’s literary works do not know what a figure of speech is. I am not a native speaker but I do know that saying “Moscow’s First Lady” is like saying “Madison Avenue” for what it represents, or “Hollywood” movies.

Great Britain’s foreign policy is better known for the address of the building where it is discussed, not to mention the Vatican. Isn’t Madame Nicolayev-Anders “bemused” by that?

Figurative language has been studied and classified for centuries in every modern language. It seems that superior education is definitely declining.

P.S. How can Greenwich Village have a Pope?

EDUARDO F. CAMPOS

INGLEWOOD