Do you know what you should read right now? Jonathan Lethem’s essay The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism.

Lethem doesn’t just pen a worthy and beautiful ode explaining and celebrating the culture of sharing — that is Our Culture, or to be even clearer, all culture — he also includes a Surprise of Genius Proportions. (So, my Skimming/Half-Reading Kin, if you really want to know why this is such a great read, you’ll just have to make it through to the end.)

I know “Long Form” articles can be a struggle in the World of a Thousand Browser Tabs, but whether you’re an old copyleftist or someone still trying to wrap your head around “this whole free culture thing,” take the time to treat your mind by clicking here.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated… (John Donne)

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