[np] Susan Sontag tonight on 'arte TV'

[Mark Kohut]

Paul Mackin writes: 
Relative to The Recognitions, Sontag upon being accused of plagiarism said:

All of us who deal with real characters in history transcribe and adopt original 
sources in the original domain. I've used these sources and I've completely 
transformed them. I have these books. I've looked at these books. There's a 
larger argument to be made that all of literature is a series of references and 
allusions.
(quote copied and pasted from wikipedia)
 
Quote stumbled upon today: Every word that spills out of our mouths, conspires 
from a history that we have absolutely no direct awareness of.....
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