Salutations Brethren,
I am writing to you to express my deepest concerns about the state of MLAtion at this point to our postmodern society. MLA is an abhorrent sin against intertextual writings and postrealistexistaromanticlassicism. It is a degenerative practice which great writers such as Jack London eschewed vehemently. In our hyperrealistic society, what use is there for MLA, or citations for that matter? Isn't all writing inherently derivitive, drawn from one (or a few) common books (I'm speaking, of course, of Dr. Seuss's paramount exploration of human consciousness, "Horton Hears a Who," and his classic treatise on human perception and its relation to society's moral degradation, "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"). The esteemed Josh Billings once said, "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment" (Billings 6). Why force student to cite their sources when all writing itself is itself from one source, as explored in Italo Calvino's landmark postmodern novel, "If on a winter's night a traveler"? I personally believe that US students, as such as, the Iraq and Afghanistan, furthermore inherently. By imposing MLAtion upon students, you are raping literary tradition paved by those such who so eagerly (and successfully) "borrowed" themes, words, paragraphs, pages, novels, the alphabet, punctuation, and the English language, from others, who in turn based their literary elements upon others' works, who in turn (Monica Lewinsky) drew their ideas from others'. Dating back to the origins of intellectual thought, isn't all literature based upon human emotion (primarily fear, superstition/religious thoughts), as evinced in Seuss's metaphorical chronicle of development of all text, "Oh the Places You'll Go!" Yes, Seuss, Oh the places we have traversed! Should we force students to cite emotion with MLA (since that IS the source all text) (Outrage, Par 5)?! NAY! You cannot capture the feelings, the origins, of emotions such as lust (Did Anthony Burgess cite his own perversion when writing 'A Clockwork Orange'?). Does not the horse's whinnie [the pooh?] cripple the tree in yonder forest? Clearly, this metaphor lends profound insight into all human interaction (Twain 90210). 93.48195555555555% of all English undergrads (and J.D. Salinger) agree, MLA citation is devilspawn (Gallup Poll 1776, Par. 9)!
Please, I beg of you, consider the following pertinent quotes of literary meritorious authors:
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --Albert Einstein
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." --Paul Gauguin
"I would advise you to do all your work if possible while the dew is on" (Thoreau 198).
"It's astonishing how Lesbian women are, consciously or unconsciously." --D.H. Lawrence
Yes, D.H. Lawrence, it is true. MLA should be purged from the education system.
Sincerely,
The Honourable Rev. Master Yosserian Darl Ishmael, Esq., et al.
I use MLA formating all the time in school because they make us. It really is annoying.