The Orin–Steeply interview (p. 1043)
Helen, you decide. But consider the fragility of the obsesso-compulsive’s control. The terrible life-ruling phobias. Her four horsemen: enclosure, communicational imprecision, and untidiness, which you can’t get much untidier than basement-mold.
Context
Orin ranks "communicational imprecision" among Avril's four horsemen — a life-ruling phobia on par with enclosure and untidiness. The retroactive key to every M.G.M. campaign in this collection: the crusades aren't pedantry but phobia-management, prescriptivism as a terror of imprecision held at bay. (The fourth horseman stays "under wraps till actual game-time.")