How to write a Humanities paper:

1. Find an interesting article.
2. Summarize it.
3. Read all of its footnotes.
4. Summarize the articles cited.
5. Print out the result, without editing.
6. Cut the paragraphs of printed text and put the scraps in a bag.
7. Shake the bag gently.
8. Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
9. Copy the contents of the scraps in that order into a new document.
10. Add a bibliography.
11. Your work will be like you and your infinitely original studies in Humanities.

Optional: Translate the document using Google Translate to Belarusian and then back to your language.

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