Re: Pagiarism?

When you have read a lot, and taken in particularly impressive and
influential writing, it often becomes part of your thinking to the
point where you may integrate it into your explanations, arguments and
works and not remember the source.

The particular example reference seems a bit too faithful in paragraph
structure, even if the sentence phrasing was changed as to render it
less elegant, so who knows?

Jorge

On 11/10/06, Peter Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I often find myself stealing Delany unconsciously.  The last time I
> caught myself doing this, I was channelling The Einstein Intersection
> . . . motes cycloned and swirled in the space where he had been . . .
> in my story "A Thousand Ways of Density", I deliberately took the idea
> of the Golden (The Star Pit) and made it a bar where Goldens go to
> drink . . . the only people who can travel past the heliosphere of the
> sun. Delany's my hero, how can I avoid imitating him a little bit? In
> the story above, I made the link explicit by saying "Delany's Golden".
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> At 02:09 p.m. 10/11/2006, Eric Solstein wrote:
> >One would hope, but still, an odd bit of prose to offer in tribute.
> >And if this is all there is to it, not too important, but still
> >interesting.  I'll leave a query to Broderick if another reply
> >doesn't surface.
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> >-Eric
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> >On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Ron Henry wrote:
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> > > On 11/9/06, Eric Solstein <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > I can't recall the Delany text, but the two are certainly more
> > > than a
> > > > bit close, and worth noting.
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> > > Almost certainly a deliberate allusion/tribute rather than plagiarism,
> > > I would think. In his essay "Black to the Future" Mosley describes SRD
> > > as "a monumental voice in the field since the '60s."
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> > > I can't recall where the Delany text is from (my first guess was
> > > Motion of Light... but it's only a guess). Too bad Broderick didn't
> > > say in his post!
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> > > -- Ron Henry
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