WHAT IS A DIFPLAG?
'There are three kinds of literary theft in this book: BLOCK PLAGIARISM, where someone else's work is printed as a distinct typographical unit, IMBEDDED PLAGIARISM, where stolen words are concealed within the body of the narrative, and DIFFUSE PLAGIARISM, where scenery, characters, actions or novel ideas have been stolen without the original words describing them. To save space these will be referred to hereafter as Blockplag, Implag and Difplag.'
​(Alasdair Gray's INDEX OF PLAGIARISMS, Lanark)
WHAT IS A DIFPLAG TO US?
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'FREUD, SIGMUND
Difplags in every chapter. Only a writer unhealthily obsessed by all of Dr Freud's psycho-sexual treatises would stuff a novel with more oral, anal and respiratory symbols, more Oedipal encounters with pleasure-reality/Eros-thanatos substitutes, more recapitulations of the birth-trauma than I have space to summarize. (See also DISNEY, GOD and JUNG.)'
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(Alasdair Gray's INDEX OF PLAGIARISMS, Lanark)
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"It reminds us that art isn't about creating something 'original', so much as it is actually about following our own instincts."
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(Patrick & Eddie)
WHY GIVE YOUR FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY SUCHA AN OBSCURE AND SEO-PESSIMIZED NAME?
"W​​e were like 25 when we made it; we promise we're less pretentious now. We've considered changing the name loads of times as it really seems to confuse people. Unfortunately we feel a little wedded to it now. ​"
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(Patrick & Eddie)
DO YOU MAKE REALLY GOOD FILMS?
"Yes."
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(Patrick & Eddie)