The ABC of Implicature

J was quoting from Pound, Ezra:

"Only in James Joyce's "Stephen Dedalus" does one find
an equal intensity, and Joyce is, by comparison, cold and
meticulous, where Lewis is, if uncouth, at any rate brim-
ming with energy, the man with a leaping mind."

"Despite its demonstrable faults I do not propose to
attack this novel.*"

"It is a serious work, it is definitely
an attempt to express, and very largely a success in ex-
pressing, something."

"The "average novel," the average
successful commercial proposition at 6s. per 300 to 600
pages is nothing of the sort."

"It is merely a third-rate mind's imitation of a perfectly well-known type-novel."

"Of let us say Dickens, or Balzac, or Sir A. Conan-Doyle,
or Hardy, or Mr. Wells, or Mrs. Ward, or some other
and less laudable proto- or necro-type."

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Oddly, Borges's grandmother's favourite novelist (and a favourite with Borges, too) was Alan Bennett. Borges's grandmother was from Hanley.

Grice does not quote from novelists much, but he refers to (later Nobel Prize) William Golding, in "Prejudices and predilections, of one Paul Grice, being the life and opinions of himself".