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March 27, 2007
Jonathan Lethem on the Ecstasy of Influence from Harpers
Jonathan Lethem on the Ecstasy of Influence from Harpers
It is simultaneously a text and a metatext. It claims to be a plagiarism, but that claim is specious. All is cited. The connection to archives are the connections to memory. I doubt that Lethem could have "authored" his text without a keen memory, a good library, and access to google. If archives are time bound, curated things; and, if all (hu)mankind is of one author, and is one volume, then those things that are not archived are forgotten memories that will have to be (re)lived and (re)written, in the hopes of being (re)membered.
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Posted by SWEAT at March 27, 2007 09:55 AM