"Beneath a thin flaking glaze"

What I witness may more accurately be described as a scattered but insistent urge to assert a multiplicity of latent or half-forgotten processes, sentiments or forms that are superbly free of so-called Western historiological development—an analytical modeling that needs to be abandoned, i.e., as based on the coloring or performative embellishment of an implacable array of irrelevant exdogenous operations that, despite an abiding constructural nearness, in essence neither foils nor influences the given procedurality.

Ref. J.C. van Leur. Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History. The Hague: W. Van Hoeve. 1955: 95; in a contiguous milieu.