
and our "rough and ready" but a bit "faute de mieux" theories, such as
they are, of ambiguity, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversity,
ellipticity, enthymemacity, equivocality, fuzziness, generality, hyperbole,
indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, metaphor, mutagenicity, parabole,
uncertainty, vagueness, and all the rest of their vast and very unruly clan.

As usual, I have temporarily exhausted myself with the formalities
of what I feel to be the obligatory preamble, so I will break off
at th