A BUNCH OF BULL?

In his review of Jeremy Treglown’s biography of Roald Dahl (Book Review, April 17), Richard Eder writes, “As a bachelor in Washington, D.C., (Dahl) painted the genitals of the rhinoceroses on the Q Street bridge.”

As someone whose in-laws live less than a hundred yards from that bridge, I don’t know whether the mistake was a misperception by an overstimulated Dahl, or an error by his biographer, but I do know that those animals on the Q Street bridge are bison--and indeed, many Georgetown residents refer to the structure affectionately as “the Buffalo Bridge.” I do wish I had seen them in Dahl’s war paint.

JAMES E. BRODHEAD, SHERMAN OAKS

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