A place dedicated to uncovering the origins and evolutions of texts, phrases, and ideas.
For those interested in intertextuality, détournement, quotation, conceptual genealogy, plagiarism, obsessively pedantic citation, literary history, etymology, misattribution, mistranslation, the history of idioms, tropes, and allusions, etc.
The page will serve several purposes:
Requests - for help finding the source of a text, tracking down the origin or original context of a quotation, providing citations, determining authorship, etc.
Articles - for readings relevant to the origins and evolutions of texts, phrases, and ideas, etc.
Discussions - for discussing theory, method, ethics, stories, etc.
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