Hopefully, this is a clearer statement of my point:
1.The use of a post's subject line could warn people that a
review might
spoil their breakfast (particularly if they wrote the
book.)
I suggest this only as a courtesy that might further civil
discourse.
Obviously, I'm just another list subscriber so this
suggestion carries no
weight, but I think it makes sense.
and
2. Theft implies that the person stolen from actually owned
the concept in
the first place. I am cynical about the existence of any new
stories, so
the odds are the person we credit with originating the idea
borrowed it
from someone else and put new clothes on it.
And speaking of reviews... I just saw the film "Goodbye
Lover." It was
soundly panned in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but I
enjoyed it quite
a lot. I don't seem to be synchronized with the rest of the
world.
Fred
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Down on Ponce a novel by Fred Willard
http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/~fwillard
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