Comte de Lautréamont

Comte de Lautréamont is the psuedonym for Isidore Lucien Ducasse. A French writer and poet. He wrote Le Chant de Maldoror which is one of those arty classics about violence which was mentioned in the post previous. "Lautreamont forces his readers to stop taking their world for granted. He shatters the complacent acceptence of the reality proposed by their cultural traditions and make them see that reality for what it is: an unreal nightmare all the more hair-raising because the sleeper believes he is awake." So says Alex de Jonge (I think he wrote a book on the topic). The reason however for this whole mention was because he said something I quite liked: "Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It closely grasps an author's sentence, uses his expressions, deletes a false idea, replaces it with a right one." /end