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quotes down, and he would string them together
with blurbs or commentaries of his own. That was
the way he wrote The Gutenberg Galaxy . And he
was reproached for doing that. People said that is
general plagiarism or a rip-off of other people’s
ideas. He didn’t see it that way at all. He saw that
by using these chunks, these gems, these
fragments that you shore up against your ruins,
as Eliot would say, by doing that he would actually
give them a different kind of content and meaning.
Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher, said, don’t
tell me that what I am saying is nothing new, that
you have seen it before. You may have seen those
things before and the order in which I am putting