“But empires, I decided, were not just maintained through might and reason, they also had to create feelings. Tom in the Andamans, for instance, was a way of taking kids ripe for initiation…it mad them want to take their place in a patriarchal, regimented and even oedipal structure. In this structure the young man replaces his phantom father, assumes the mask of his concealed identity, learns the mobile imperial discourse of reason, yet loves the colony almost as if it were a woman.”