Grice's "sophisticated and remorseless literalism"

From Grice, "The life of Grice":

"Sophisticated and remorseless literalism
was typical of us Oxonians." or words to that effect.

"When seeking to organise a discussion group to entertain a visiting American
logician, Austin said", Grice recalls:

"They say that logic is a game; well then, let's play it as a game'.

Grice comments:

"with the result that we spent a fascinating term, meeting each week to play that week's improved version of a game called by Austin Symbolo, a sequence I suspect of less thrilling ancestors of the game many years later profitably marketed under teh name of Wff'n'Proof"

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but which Mrs. Grice (reported in "Grice" by Chapman) describes as some otiose scribblings of dots on pieces of paper -- see "Female Griceians").