Narrator: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=someplace _proximal to_ where you live."

[W Brewer]

>
> Wilson Gray      Subject: _someplace proximal to where you live_
> "Proximal to"? in non-academic, colloquial speech? "Near" is too banal, I
> guess.


When I hear the word distal, I reach for my pistol, to paraphrase Hanns
Johst.

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