T. S. Eliot In The South Seas
Sir,—l would suggest to Mr Neville Braybrooke that he amend his conjectural derivation of the name “Parallel Opipedon.” Reference to a dictionary will show that a “parallelopipedon” is any prism whose six faces are parallelograms. In this sense a brick would qualify. There is at least one more specialised meaning, but this need not be quoted here. —Yours, etC ” ALLEN T. SIMPSON. December 5, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 18
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