In her footnotes, Mol notes that "generalizations about 'the literature' always draw together disparate writings that have different souls, different concerns of their own" (see 6)
Also, 16: "There is a problem in making relations to the literature explicit: it takes so much space to outline a single, simple link [...] And there are so many of them, so many more."
16-7: "Is it possible to make all the partial connections between a text and its relevant others explicit? I don't think so. So many resonating terms, so many diffracting topics, so many shared words with slightly different meanings from one text to another. How much time and energy should we invest in articulating relations[?]"