DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF THEORY-SPEAK

The wife has just been helping me edit a proposal for a fellowship for this summer, and we have managed to produce a colossal moment* of proposal-speak, as follows:

"With these pieces I intend to examine problematized conditions of memory as manifest within the fragmentary familial paradigms endemic to late twentieth-century Western culture."

May god have mercy on our souls.

* The wife says a colossal moment is oxymoronic, which is fine if that is the effect you are going for. I suppose a moment can be colossal... [At this point it is demanded that I stop transcribing.]