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1 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | Hank | 171793 | ||
Hi Tim: Of course the suspected "borrowing" of someone else's work could turn out to be pure "coincidence," wherein two minds just happened to produce two identical pieces of creative work, as illustrated by this story my favorite English professor told me long ago. This professor, as part of a course in creative writing that he was teaching, assigned each member of the class to compose an original poem and read it to the class at the next session. On the appointed day, a young lady stepped up and read her poem to the class. The professor immediately recognized the poem as being a published work of celebrated poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. After class he summoned the young lady to his office and from his library picked a volume of poetry, turned to the poem and read it aloud to the young lady -- the very poem she had just read in class claiming that it was her own original composition. "What have you to say to that, young lady?" asked the professor. The young student squirmed in her seat and asked coyly, "Can I help it if Edna St. Vincent Millay and I happened to think up the same poem?" This incident, according to my professor who, until his death a few years ago, remained one of my closest friends, is true. It happened in his class. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | DocTrinsograce | 171795 | ||
Well, you know, Brother Hank, there are, after all, only a finite number of words and a finite number of combinations in which they can be arranged! :-) Good anecdote, by the way! |
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