RE: RARA-AVIS: Copy Cats, Evolution, Revisionary Aesthetics

From: Anthony Dauer ( anthony.dauer@erols.com)
Date: 02 Sep 2000


Think that's more under the lines of ... 'stealing one writer's work is plagiarism, stealing a lot of writers' work is research.' Then there's ...
'nothing new under the sun.' 'A writer is the is the last author they read.'

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volente Deo,

Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
"If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will." -Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
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-----Original Message----- From: Mbdlevin@aol.com Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 12:53 AM
Good artists borrow, great artists steal. --Picasso (?) There is no new thing under the sun. --Ecclesiastes (?) I learned to write a novelette on one of yours....I made an extremely detailed synopsis of your story and from that rewrote it...etc. --Chandler to Gardner
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