Professor Plum, with a Candlestick
How hoaxers like “Clark Rockefeller” turn us into co-conspirators
Kevin Young
Blood Will Out:
The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
by Walter Kirn
Liveright
$15.95 List Price
VIOLENT AND VIOLATING, plagiarism, the term we now use to describe stealing another’s language, is haunted by further crimes. The meaning of plagiary, as the act was first known, originally included theft not just of words but bodies: Taken from the Latin, plagium meant, and still means in civil law, “the crime of kidnapping,” especially children; plagiary added the idea of stealing a slave, and of seduction, as well as
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