The book is a form Searle has favoured and which favours him: they are cheaper to produce than most forms of visual art and they suit his virtues of dry analytical though not very didactic wit - and his taste for the puzzle, the conundrum, for the crabbily unfashionable, counter-intutitive and snort provoking, for the rare enthusiasm pursued and elaborated despite its obscurity.
Ken Bolton: Road Testing the Royal Landscape and Other Issues.