'Last year a work friend, while doing some marking for his other job, mentioned that students would often use the phrase ‘deeply rooted’ in their essays, which he always found unintentionally funny. By ‘deeply rooted’, I imagine these students mean something like ‘inseparable; grown from the very heart, filled with the blood, bearing the features, inhabited by the stories’. Whereas it reads more like ‘deeply fucked’.' (Introduction)