Originally posted by: Semanti
"Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare."
So says the ever reliable dost-- Wikipedia.
Because literary criticism is an interdisciplinary field, this may be conveniently adopted to analyze various texts and explain how two texts are related to each other through no more than 6 different texts.
This phenomenon has been used so conveniently and so cleverly by certain writers that you can no longer tell what is original and what is plagiarized up to six degrees.
This new discovery has left literary critics stunned and gobsmacked at how they missed this painfully obvious link for so long.
Intertextuality is a bitch for people who want to accuse other people of plagiarism.
Bas ab 1 AM ko this is all the know-it-all behaviour that you get.