A return to Kathy Acker. In her fiction, one of her recurrent methodologies is to "plagiarize" the works and words of other authors. To quote Acker:
"I now wonder where the idea or the ideology of creativity started. Shakespeare and company certainly stole from, copied each other's writings. Before them, the Greeks didn't bother making up any new stories. I suspect that the ideology of creativity started when the bourgeoisie--when they rose up in all their splendor, as the history books put it--made a capitalistic marketplace for books. Today a writer earns money or a living by selling copyright, ownership to words. We all do it, we writers, this scam, because we need to earn money, only most don't admit it's a scam. Nobody really owns nothing."
All's fair in love and war, and, for Acker, the destruction of a metanarrative, like patriarchy, is war.
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