From the Annals of bad dissertation writing
by zunguzungu
I just wrote this sentence, and sort of wish I hadn’t:
I will say a great deal more about the politics of this conflict as it obtained in Kenya; for now, however, the point is simply that Roosevelt’s intervention has to be placed in the context of this silently waged (but extremely bitter) intra-imperial struggle, a very vexed non-conversation between settlement and metropole, I’ll argue, that the writer of African Game Trails was able to mediate — in the ways I’ll argue he was — precisely because he was from neither London nor Nairobi, but was, as American, both settler and imperialist.
But I’m not sure what to write instead. Sigh. Faulkner I ain’t.
zunguzungu 
For what it’s worth, I think you’re still ahead of Hegel.
That’s because I write in English. With Hegel, it’s like he has a different word for everything.
Also, I don’t think Faulker, for all that I love him, is quite the model I’d follow for essay or dissertation writing either.
sigh…. FaulkNer…. noticed the typo just after clicking submit….
I will say more about the politics of this conflict as it obtained in Kenya. For now the point is that Roosevelt’s intervention must be placed in the context of this silently waged (but extremely bitter) intra-imperial struggle: a vexed non-conversation [?] between settlement and metropole. The writer of African Game Trails was able to mediate precisely because he was, as an American, both settler and imperialist.
Richard,
Although it’s fun to fantasize about what that would look like:
“Great Teddy bear: who loved not merely to hunt the elephants, nor yet to photograph them, nor even yet to watch Kermit photographing them, but yet still loved to photograph himself and Kermit after having brought low the great beast…”
Seafan,
Whatever. 27:02.
More like, “From the Anals of Bad Dissertation Writing.”
Nicely done, sir, well played.
I love how low we can go together, ZZ.