Use of the word indeed.

[Brownlie]

I would but my arms have melted because I got water on them and you know how long it takes them to grow back. what kind of modal are we talking about and how does one place such in front of a "scythe like comma"? Only half of my brain has grown back and I just don't understand


dale

I think you're right to question the meaning here. I was talking about the tendency in academic prose to generate sentences such as: indeed, the metrical nonsense creates an apt  resemblance to paradoxically ordered chaos. My use of the word modal, however, was kind of haphazard. To my knowledge, indeed isn't really a modal verb, but it may create a mode for authoritative discourse through a somewhat meaningles utterance. Idk, all of it is really an attempt at bathroom pith. That is, wit generated in the thought space of the John. A scythe like comma refers to the shape of the comma, the universal metaphor of reaping, and the pause generated by the comma after indeed that cuts up the timing of the utterance produced (But again, bathroom pith).