I started reading the article, and it's quite stunning. However, the first comment is flat out good.
And that's a big difference.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 4:47:44 pm PST #16934 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
smonster - Nov 30, 2011 8:21:55 pm PST #16935 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Good gravy. From that plagiarism confession and the comments, I got to his father's website (he's an author) and found this quote in an interview he did about his book My Last Days:
Self-pity is a crucial aspect of American masculinity.
--That's the kind of generalization you begin with in satire. I try to go "inside" Supe a bit, while parodying the confessional that's so popular, popular because of our endless need to heal and fix ourselves in public, to substitute moments of titillation for lives of sympathy and growth. Supe's trapped in that erzatz self-help cult (not culture.) So his biggest revelations about his inner child can be funny while sad....
(further odd side note: Quentin did the illustrations for the book, and was also present for that interview. )
eta also, $20 says frequent QR defender "Dana" (on more than one website) is a sock puppet.
le nubian - Dec 01, 2011 3:01:20 am PST #16936 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am pretty uncomfortable with the confession. I read it yesterday and didn't properly process it.
The scope of his plagiarism throughout his lifetime is hard to contemplate. What has he written that has been original? Some of the comments ask whether or not the confession was purloined, and I would agree because I had the same thought.
However, if that confession is evidence of the quality of his writing, I can see why he kept stealing all the time and didn't put the work in to improve his own skills.
Can someone point me to the comment you liked so much? The first comment I saw yesterday was nothing to write home about.
hippocampus - Dec 01, 2011 4:40:50 am PST #16937 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
The first comment asked who had written the essay. Given the author's proclivity, and the depersonalized tone of the essay, it made me grin. Cruelly.
eta also, $20 says frequent QR defender "Dana" (on more than one website) is a sock puppet.
Heh.
Le N, I was so uncomfortable with the essay that my eyes skidded right off of it. From my (admittedly lame) look, it felt like he was cataloging of what he'd done, instead of processing it or gaining insights from it.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2011 4:49:11 am PST #16938 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He wasn't just cataloging it, as far as I got. He was angling himself for sympathy.
But at least he wasn't claiming it wasn't plagiarism! Surely that's a...no, I got nothing.
smonster - Dec 01, 2011 4:53:51 am PST #16939 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I gotta say, having spent just a bit of time in a 12-step group, I totally agree with the commenters saying "AA - UR DOIN IT WRONG." That was some serious self-important wanking.
Toddson - Dec 01, 2011 4:59:14 am PST #16940 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I remember reading that while plagiarism isn't actually against the law, most publishers have a clause in their contracts with writers that what they'll get is original work. This means that the publisher could take a plagiarist for anything they've paid him plus, possibly, damages.
Amy - Dec 01, 2011 5:02:24 am PST #16941 of 28282
Because books.
Plagiarism would be illegal if it's violating copyright, wouldn't it? Or do you mean it's not a criminal offense, but a civil one?
Toddson - Dec 01, 2011 5:03:40 am PST #16942 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Civil rather than criminal.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2011 5:17:52 am PST #16943 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No doubt the picture of AA we see filtered through TV is inaccurate, but it's clear enough that you TAKE RESPONSIBILITY and MAKE AMENDS. I don't see how you plan to slip that past anyone that's watched TV in the last 20 years.