scissors-and-paste

James Joyce: I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors-and-paste man.

David Shields: In Writing, Art, And Music, Everybody Steals David Shields 2010

James Joyce: I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors-and-paste man.

David Shields: In Writing, Art, And Music, Everybody Steals 2010

As we have seen in the context of Collingwood's critique of pseudo histories, such as scissors-and-paste history, historians must be sensitive to the fact that historical agents may not share their own epistemic beliefs, indeed, that many beliefs that are logically efficacious, and that render the actions of historical agents intelligible, may well be false.

Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006

Failing to take the agent's epistemic and motivational premises on board leads the historian to write bad historical narratives, the narratives Collingwood refers to as scissors-and-paste histories.

Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006

Collingwood calls this kind of history scissors-and-paste history and condemns it as a pseudo history.

Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006

Maybe that's why Mr. Roth could walk his tedious scissors-and-paste job past most of the gatekeepers; why Mr. Mailer took only a few pokes; why no one quite dared suggest that Mr. Bellow's latest novella chewed serenely on not much cud.

Roth, Mailer, Bellow Running Out of Gas 1997

This is unjustified: Plato was no scissors-and-paste composer; the style (despite assertions to the contrary) is rot notably different from that employed in other Platonic myths, and certain of the ideas seem much more

PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY E. R. DODDS 1968

We'll do the new Fleet Street movement together, the scissors-and-paste.

Once a Week 1919

Roman colonies Lystra and Philippi, so Hebraic in Galilee or by the Jordan, and so Lukan everywhere — this character and individuality, shown in numberless ways, make it clear that the author was no clipper-up of fragments from other writers, no mere scissors-and-paste editor of scraps, no mere second-hand composer, dependent on the accidental character of his

Was Christ Born in Bethlehem? 1851-1939 1898

The scissors-and-paste compilers are peculiarly liable to such errors as these; and a writer in the Quarterly Review proved the Mémoires de Louis XVIII. (published in 1832) to be a mendacious compilation from the Mémoires de Bachaumont by giving examples of the compiler's blundering.

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893