(transcripted & edited from obabakoak)

从来没见过我这么懒的人 @_@

I. A plagiarist must select texts with a clear plot. That will be the first rule of my method. In other words, one must choose stories or novels whose plots can be summed up in a few facts or events. For that reason, models such as a Robbe Grillet or Faulkner are unsuitable for the plagiarist, because in the works of writers such as these, the story is the least important thing. Writers like Saki, Buzzati or even Hemingway, on the other hand, can be highly recommended. In general terms, the more ancient the model chosen, the better for the plagiarist: you could use a thousand stories from those collected in The Arabian Nights but not one from some avant-garde anthology.
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很久很久以前，巴格达城里住着个富有的商人，商人有个仆人。有一天清晨，仆人照例去市集采购。但是和以前都不一样的是，这天清晨他在市集里见到了死神，死神用中怪异的眼光看着他。

仆人吓了个半死，赶紧逃回家。

“主人，”他说，“把最快的马借给我吧，今晚我想远离巴格达。今晚我想赶到远方的伊斯法罕去。”

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