"Do not eschew from necessary prolixity" [not sic].

---- by JLS
---------- for the Grice Club or Circle, etc.

----- "Avoid unnecessary prolixity [sic]" reads one of Grice's amusing and self-amusing maxims. "Prolixity" is mentioned by Dutton in the Dutton website:

"[P]rolixity is often a feature of bad writing, as demonstrated by our next winner: Stephen Tyler, and appears in Writing Culture, edited (it says) by James Clifford and George E. Marcus".

Tyler:

[Post-modern ethnography] thus relativizes

discourse not just to form — that familiar

perversion of the modernist; nor

to authorial intention — that conceit of

the romantics;"

------ AND GRICE!!!

"nor to a foundational world beyond

discourse — that desperate grasping for

a separate reality of the mystic and

scientist alike; nor even to history

and ideology — those refuges of

the hermeneuticist; nor even

less to language — that hypostasized

abstraction of the linguist;"


--- AND DAVIDSON!! ("Derangement of Epitaphs", in PGRICE.

"nor, ultimately, even to discourse —

that Nietzschean playground of world-lost

signifiers of the structuralist and

grammatologist, but to all or none of

these, for it is anarchic, though

not for the sake of anarchy but because

it refuses to become a fetishized

object among objects — to be dismantled,

compared, classified, and neutered in

that parody of scientific scrutiny

known as criticism."

Etc.