What is a man…a plagiarist, no more
January 31st, 2008
‘What is a man?’ asks Shakespeare’s Hamlet ‘if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more’.
Compare to Tennysson’s Ulysses who ‘mete[s] and dole[s] unqeual laws unto a savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and no not [him]’. Obviously not a coincidence and discussed in many journals, but connoting the need to copy consciously and subconsciously and build on that which has been created by others.