Rightie ho, I've got the picture on what Reznikoff used, which seems quite
ok to me, I got a wrong impression from Mairead's first post, and as I've
never been able to get into his stuff I'm quite ignorant on it.
There's this fine line between plagiarism and creative use of sources, I
wouldn't attempt to define it.
But the issue of Dostoevsky's trousers seems important to me, I've sometimes
been accused of holding to a position of valorising the romantic poverty
stricken poet in the garret. Well I know about poverty, and it's not
comfortable. Fear lies at its heart.
I don't see why Fyodor shouldn't have had an adequate supply of trousers
(nor Alison her nice new dressing gown!) as I've never agreed with the idea
that writers have to suffer. The supply of that quality one gets as a human
being, writerly or not, is quite adequate enough, ta very much Mr G-d.
Best
Dave
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