ABSTRACT
An additional remark on such expressions, their origins, authenticity, and recognizability. For an issue has been raised which, at a rather more complex intellectual level, has been argued about endlessly by philosophers and aestheticians, and especially by historians of the written word. And I hesitate in this place to go on to consider the controversial one-to-one correspondence theory of names, words, and literary descriptions, of “nominalist” fallacies in the relationship between what we say and the realities we suppose we are designating. More forbidding than that, it involves a problem of language employed by gifted writers (and even by some voluble hacks) and its various elements of realism and/or imagination.
