So I'm reading that link I boosted earlier - https://www.dgsiegel.net/talks/the-bullet-hole-misconception - and it's a really interesting/good read, BUT. I take issue with this specific paragraph as doing exactly what the author is warning against. (cont.) https://tootplanet.space/media/svybOneJ5YNfL7Tzbls
The presumption here is that, because we reference things by page numbers now, page numbers are the ONLY way to reference or cite specific passages.
Even just looking at Western European literary history, as the author here is, this is clearly wrong.
Psalm 24:7-8
Tell me you can't find that quote easily.
If you don't like the Biblical angle:
Richard III, Act 2, Scene 3
@InspectorCaracal ok and like Nietzsche... whose stuff was broken into Citeable aphorisms... he didn’t actually cite stuff HE drew on. Somehow he survived.