Indeed. And I forgot to mention that a few lines earlier he was bemoaning the loss of such useful words as 'sculptress', which puts his devotion to the language of common gender in some doubt. (Of course, the most important thing to know when you look at a sculpture is the sex of the person who made it, right? In fact, we might extend the practice: "sculptoik" could be the word for a working-class sculptor, and so on...)