Thanks, William. I will certainly let you know if I do get round to writing a rebuttal. And I agree totally with you about "insufflation", as I do about Hecht's use of "adjective pile-ons". After all, what would Bosch have to say about the guy who wrote these pile-ons?
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I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
As broad and general as the casing air.
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled...
Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo...
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