No more, please

Or, "Why I don't think I'll be joining the academy"

What if I one day wrote sentences like the following:

"The madeleine section mediates between the vertical immobility of an instantaneous revelation and the horizontal extensiveness of an incipient narration."

I don't know how I'd sleep at night. I might just as well become a drug mule for a pharmaceutical company. I'll admit, I've taken this out of context, but even within the paragraph or the chapter in which it occurs, this sentence is pretty bad. In context, what he means by vertical and horizontal is relatively clear to anyone who has read Saussure or Jakobson (and that is a fair assumption for his audience), but the rest of it verges on drivel, in my humble opinion.

Anyways, I'm done with the body of my essay (I don't call it a thesis anymore) and am still working through my intro and conclusion. I don't know if I can stand to read my chapters again. I will, but not for another few days at least.

Love Ev