Intellectual Property: Ah. I see Claudine Gay has resigned…

I could be wrong. But, to me, it looks as though a way that Claudine Gay sometimes (but rarely) writes is to (a) copy a sentence from a source, (b) paste it, and then (c) edit it a little, while (d) sometimes citing the source and sometimes not.

That is not at all a good way to “write”...

That is not a way that I have ever been tempted to write because my prose-writing muscles were set before it was at all possible. Even when you are reading a sentence and then trying to express the same thought, the degree of commonality here strikes me as… unusual and unlikely—everybody I read, after all, uses words I tend to shy away from for whatever reason, and so I think I have a hard time producing sentences that are plagiarism-except-for-two-changed-words:

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