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'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2011 9:28:09 am PST #5598 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Consuela - Nov 09, 2011 9:30:25 am PST #5599 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Massive plagiarizing in a new thriller, by a guy who resents the way other novelists produce tripe and get published: [link]
He even scammed the Paris Review!
le nubian - Nov 09, 2011 9:38:11 am PST #5600 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela,
the scope of the plagiarism is SHOCKING. I cannot believe it.
amych - Nov 09, 2011 9:43:20 am PST #5601 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Argh. Someone tell me to get some fucking work done? Because my self-discipline thingamawhoozie, which never worked in the first place, now seems to have wandered off altogether.
hippocampus - Nov 09, 2011 9:44:30 am PST #5602 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Amych - get some fucking work done.
Consuela, the commenters who are calling the plagarism homage and mash-up and satire have damaged my eyes.
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2011 9:44:38 am PST #5603 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Code like the wind, amych!
SuziQ - Nov 09, 2011 9:45:01 am PST #5604 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Off to the dentist. Oh joy...
le nubian - Nov 09, 2011 9:47:20 am PST #5605 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Here is an article in the guardian about the plagiarist which names even more sources of his plagiarism!
!!
Apparently, one passage was stolen from 007 books and the plagiarism was uninterrupted for six straight pages.
JZ - Nov 09, 2011 9:55:35 am PST #5606 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Consuela, the commenters who are calling the plagarism homage and mash-up and satire have damaged my eyes.
I was just about to post something similar. There's so much wrong, and so deeply so, with those commenters' understanding of writing and music and, well, plagiarism that it's not even possible to know where to begin. Almost worse than the ignorance is the weird smugness and certainty that nobody has ever, ever figured this out before: "You literary snobs with all your talk of so-called 'plagiarism' and 'theft,' you have no idea how irrelevant and immaterial are your petty concerns. After all, what is originality? Aren't we all telling the same stories over and over, and aren't we all plagiarizing some original speaker of the language with every word we say? Bet you never thought about that, did you?"
Jesse - Nov 09, 2011 9:58:13 am PST #5607 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Argh. Someone tell me to get some fucking work done? Because my self-discipline thingamawhoozie, which never worked in the first place, now seems to have wandered off altogether.
Christ, me too. I thought being out of the office for a week would help, but nsm.