2026-01-29
9 分钟The Economist Hi there, it's Jason Palmer here,
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that people get away with plagiarism a lot,
even when the line they are plagiarizing is, it is a truth universally acknowledged.
In 2007,
chapters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice were sent with minor variations to 18 editors,
purporting to be a new novel entitled First Impressions.
Despite it containing one of the most famous lines in English literature,
only one editor called out the hoaxer.
My first impression, or reading first impressions,
he replied with Austenian archness, was, mild annoyance, then laughter.
Many find plagiarism less droll, as a new book by Roger Kreutz,
an academic, makes clear His book canters through 20 centuries of plagiarism,
from musical plagiarism, Bob Dylan, to literary plagiarism, Dylan Thomas,
or rhetorical plagiarism, Joe Biden, and all of the above plagiarism.
Mr.
Dylan's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature,