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Glue and scissors

Johann Jacob Bodmer

Phraseologism: Glue and scissors.

Meaning: Cutting out individual passages from a previously written text (one's own or someone else's) and gluing them together, replacing one's own original work (iron.).

Origin: The author of the expression is the Swiss critic and poet Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698-1783). In his writings, he at least twice used this expression - "scissors and a pot of glue" (1744), characterizing the "creative method" of some writers. It was the Swiss critic that the German writer, philosopher-educator and art theorist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) referred to, thanks to whom this expression became widely known. In his Letters on Modern Literature (letter 17, 1759), Lessing repeated Bodmer's formula in relation to the boring tragedy The Dying Cato (1732) by the German classical playwright Johann Christoph Gottsched (ironically nicknamed in Germany "literary dad" - by analogy with the Pope Roman). After that, the expression became winged. In Soviet times in Russia, among journalists who prepared editorials, there was a popularly similar ironic expression - "the Rekle method", which meant the same work technology - "cut and glue" ..

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Through the magic crystal.

Meaning:

Symbol of poetic imagination.

Origin:

From the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" (1823-1832) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837) (ch. 8, stanza 50): "Many, many days have passed // Since young Tatyana // And Onegin with her in a vague dream // Appeared to me for the first time - // And the distance of a free romance // I through a magic crystal // Still did not clearly distinguish. Pushkin's expression "magic crystal" is based on one of the methods of divination by means of a "magic crystal" - a small ball of transparent, colorless glass, in which, if you look at its shiny surface for a long time, various images seem to appear. Divination with such a "crystal" was very common at the beginning of the XNUMXth century. Pushkin speaks of him metaphorically.

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