Challenge! (Patreon)

Write a worse sentence:  "The next step of intellectual decline was to bring to bear on the main idea of the conscious identity of the kite all sorts of subjects which had imaginative force or tendency of their own. "

(Yes, I'm doing my reading now and lashing out... -- MJN)

[btw, my own attempt] "It was not, so far as it went, the matter of the buzzing of the game of Operation, as it was, in its essence, the sense that, when the matter came to be under one's intense study, which, when one is inclined to undertake the goofy game for dopey doctors, the rattling of the playing board, or, as it were, the 'patient' and the jarring noise of the failure to mend his or her, in this case 'his', infirmities."