Walter Benjamin one mentioned in a letter that when he was examining his own written drafts, he was surprised to find that they were comprised mostly of quotations. He writes: this is the most outrageous form of mosaic technique that one can imagine. To me, this is a kind of metaphorical thought on the weltbildes (world picture, or conceptions du monde). It implies that this world as idea is comprised of different meaning fragments from different times and spaces and these fragments must rely ...