I've progressed to a new level of essay wankerage: the inclusion of the original metaphor. Even as I wrote it, I was unwholesomely proud and also cringing. And then, then! I included an example. Only a very vague example, but one nonetheless.

I just used the word nonetheless.

No, hang on, that's just getting paranoid, Dee.

Could be worse. I could be using the phrase "thus engendered", like I did in the first paragraph of my essay.

Yes, it's essay time again. Thank goodness I only have one, and not three like the last time. Essays are like Jane Austen novels: they leave me talking like that for a while afterwards.