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I don’t understand what Woolf is going on about here..

"A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, for the palsied and dying... for once the disease of reading...
but though the sight of it gave him extreme delight, he had never dared show it even to his mother, since to write...was, he knew, for a nobleman an inexplicable disgrace.

Now I know from where my favourite author essentially plagiarized, wholesale, his serene prose style — which means that I now know from where I plagiarized my style. If you can't invent, steal, I guess?

Now I know where my favourite author essentially plagiarized, wholesale, his serene prose style from.

Now I know whence my favourite author essentially plagiarized, wholesale, his serene prose style.