From the banal to the bizarre -- and back

Grice wrote (well, perhaps one day he will -- vide Chapman)

"From Genesis to Revelations -- and back: a new
discourse on metaphysics"

-- The subtitle for his presidential address at the APA, Pacific Division, San Diego, March 1975, was:

from the banal to the bizarre.

He found that most of the words he found hisself using were 'bizarre' (cfr. Moore on Witters as a 'queer' Austrian engineer).

This Grice found unpromising.

After all, we are supposed to be banal and, what's worse, talk to the banal (entre nous).

He started to see what's banal about Shakespeare. And he failed!