???logical conflict, between the denotatory and the connotatory sense of words; between, that is to say, an asceticism tending to kill language by stripping words of all association and a hedonism tending to kill language by dissipating their true sense under a multiplicity of associations.
Oxford Poetry preface(1927)
quoted in Emerson: Seven Types of Ambiguity VIII ??2 s.16
Something Ansu wrote reminded me of this.
