Three stand out, not because they are wholly distinct. [contrarian]
Three stand out, not because they are wholly distinct in vision or chronology (they, in fact, work around and through one another’s visions in recursive rather than linear ways), but because they refract different referents with respect to what served for each as precedent, context, and relevant model.
Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ E…, loc. 640