thomblake comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 05 October 2011 09:57:23PM 1 point [-]

What is so hard about attributing the words to a work, and attributing the work to the author?

Aha, I thought you were saying that a quote from a work of fiction should not be attributed to its author at all, which is what I took issue with. Clearly it makes sense to do so by way of the work, possibly taking pains to point out that it was from a work of fiction.