Seven Types of Ambiguity

from William Empson's landmark work of literary criticism

Empson's fourth type of ambiguity deals with "alternative meanings [that] combine to make clear a complicated state of mind in the author."

This is a pretty good description of the task of this blog. Of course sometimes I infer a complicated state of mind out of a mere tic. After all, there are types of ambiguities, and ambiguities of type!