practicingtheliberalarts:thebellejerk:Elizabeth Newton on how citations are, first and foremost
practicingtheliberalarts:thebellejerk:Elizabeth Newton on how citations are, first and foremost, a method of attachment Your citations are the people you are in conversation with, and with whom you share (or do not share, as the case may be) common intellectual cause. You are writing across time and space, carefully, for other people to pick up your threads of thought and continue to weave the tapestry of ideas and inquiry. -- source link