[The_Rorschach]

As much as you might prefer it to be so, your ignorance is not a reflection of the human condition. Just because you suffer a cerebral handicap does not necessitate anyone else does. You could be special, just as your mother keeps telling you. You cannot generalize the subjective, please try to remember this in the future. Personal experience never reflects the norm.

"Many secondary sources that I read take direct quotations from the primary texts."

Alas, they are still INTERPRETIVE PIECES. Context is everything, and no single sentence, paragraph or page can properly represent any concept which is explained within a multitude of pages.

Weiner.