<p>You’re a good person.</p>
<p>LOL! That one took me a while.</p>
<p>May I misappropriate it for future use?</p>
<p>xiggi, I’m not sure you can make such a blanket statement about the attempt to create a new voice. Art or archtiecture or literature is not created from thin air. Art is created when two or more existing concepts or partial concepts are blended together in a daring and previously unknown manner. </p>
<p>But this woman was not after art or literature. She was after money and fame–and she got both!</p>
<p>Cheers:</p>
<p>This reminds me of the joke about the woman (why is it always a woman in this kind of jokes?) who goes to a performance of Hamlet and comments: “I don’t see what’s original about this play. It’s full of quotations I’ve heard before.” :(</p>
<p>And I’m fairly positive that someone from the SAlley would say, “At least she knows that they are quotations. From a doomed Man, too.”</p>
<p>But has anyone commented on KV’s, Editor or whoever had supervisory responsibility.</p>
<p>Areisathena - no (c) notation, so it’s in the public domain now. In fact, I’m going to deny I ever said it, and blame it on you.</p>
<p>(c) 2006, Kluge Productions.</p>
<p>There you go!</p>
<p>Well, she got fame, although a better word might now be “notoriety.” But did she actually receive money that she gets to keep?</p>
<p>You don’t get to keep an advance on royalties if your book isn’t sold. More to the point, you don’t get a contract payment if you didn’t deliver what was specified in the contract.</p>
<p>In KV’s case, instead of a copyRIGHT, she did a copyWRONG.</p>
<p>Fendrock…the modus operandi, however, was “COPY”.</p>
<p>was just being a punster, in case that wasn’t clear :)</p>