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Can someone explain why authors do this?
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Tradition!
There's a helpful wiki article breaking down the full convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
”Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people”
— some fella on the internet
"Never forget to attribute your quotes to George Carlin" - Leonard Nimoy, probably
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. -Abraham Lincoln
"Only a fool would quote anyone but me." - Oscar Wilde
Tradition is just dead people's baggage. Doug Stanhope.