The same combination is often employed to scrutinize complex literary techniques, with equally uproarious results. See, for example, how he deals with self-proclaimed naturalist novelists who have no first-hand experience of the setting they describe:
And it must be added, at the risk of giving a violent shock to literary slummers, that every middle-class novelist who professes to arrive at his descriptions of that daily life by the inductive or Zolaistic method, is to that extent a flagrant humbug, although he may, through the ignorance of his readers, be as safe from exposure as an East-end dog-stealer would be if he undertook the fashionable intelligence for a paper circulating exclusively in Bethnal-green.