We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors ...we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism...; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »