'Underneath'
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Civil rather than criminal.
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.
The thought I might do it *accidentally* kind of makes me sweat. Kind of like how Keith Olbermann seems to fear some kind of "Real Deal With Bill McNeil" moment where he incites some psycho. wrod. If I think hard, I might even remember what Step it is(nine? Or did Larry David fuck with my head again?)
I think it's one thing to get someone else's words stuck in your head and use them in something thinking they're your own. And (1) it's likely to be a few words, maybe a sentence, and (2) it's done unknowingly. Lifting entire sections or complete books, and knowing what you're doing, is one thing. And this guy isn't even terribly apologetic about it.
I am somewhat in awe of the guy's chutzpah, in that "Dude, you're scum, but wow, those are some big balls" way.