Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Ch. 8, sct. 207 (confer Comte de Lautréamont, Poésies II, 1870). - Society of the Spectacle (1967)