As I begin to draft ‘Document 1’, I find myself constantly revising my text, trying to replace all (habitual) reference to causal relationships with less presumptuous terminology. The logical part of me keeps constructing text in terms of consequences – something leads to something else, or one thing results in another; I must work hard to spot such lazy connections (taking nothing for granted) and replace them with more anodyne forms of wording such as something ‘becomes associated with’ something else, or one thing ‘is consistent with’ another. I find myself wondering if this great effort is simply a matter of playing with words, tricking the reader. In my desperation to avoid imposing meaning, I am in fact relying upon a hidden agenda.
Nervousness about the Hidden Agenda
