No more so than any author plagiarises another other. All books are but rickety contraptions made of tricks, assembled by a thief. An honest book would contain a reference list containing every other work of consideration ever penned or spoken, and its printing would consume the paper of the entire world.

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GOLO: Ah, yes. The "AIDs mattress", that 2-by-1 metre mass of mystery and dysentery. More bacterium than polyurethane these days, of course. Having endured countless rain storms, the ministrations of crack addicts, and witnessed (and yes, aided in) the transmission of more STDs than there are leaves upon the autumn forest floor. Yet few know the truth: the mattress is alive. Totally sentient, totally conscious, having been brought to lucidity by the miracle conjunction of a delving sperm, a broken pigeon's egg, and the writhing, boiling mass of bacteria its recesses are host to. It is widely believed to be the most rich and fertile mass of chemicals since the Archean Eon, and perhaps even in the the AIDs mattress shall be looked back at with a sense of matrimonial love, much as we do Mother Earth.