Lautréamont on Plagiarism
June 27th, 2007
From Scott Horton’s No Comment:
Lautréamont on Plagiarism
Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It holds tight an author’s phrase, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, and replaces it with just the right idea.
– Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), Poésies II (1870)(S.H. transl.)
Recent claims of plagarism, where a few phrases in a many hundreds page book are copied almost exactly, without quote marks, especially when the original source is copiously cited, perfectly illustrate this point,
Note to my students: This does not mean you can copy your paper from the internet, or your fellow students!
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