An idea for a new treatise

Here is an idea for a new treatise on economics.

Download from the Internet a copy of Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Marx’s Capital Volume I. Copy from both books those passages you find agreeable. Paste them into a new document. Reorder the passages according to taste and preference. Stop when you have mined all the passages you like.

This idea—some have surely thought it before—arises on a warm bright Spring morning. It refers to nothing and has no meaning. It merely asks how pastiche might be relevant to the way we think?