Another thought occured to me: when does making an allusion become
stealing another person's ideas or plagarizing? Is it based on how
big a part the snippet is in the new text or how important a role it
plays or what? Is something like Prufrock/Waste Land or even Wayne's
World with its Scooby Doo, Laverne & Shirley allusions infringement if
no permission was sought? What about when Pre-Raphaelites allude to
Renaissance painters, who in turn allude to Greek-Roman classical
referents. This seems to get into the whole simulations (a la Baudril-
lard) business. -Sterling