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Dear Alastair, I am afraid I’ve failed to express my main idea. Let me make a second try. An annoying event happens. Are the Society to express its opinion or, perhaps, it would be better to let Kipling stand up for himself, as it was often the case? Yours, Yan A> /Dear Yan/, A> I /think/ we are in agreement on this point - when you write about A> examining "the fact in the context", and commenting on "a columnist A> commenting on Kipling". I would suggest that we're looking at the same A> thing from different ends of the telescope, as you might say. How a A> columnist.or any other commentator sees and interprets our author is of A> interest to the Society, in just the same way as a new book about RK is A> worthy of a review. A> I would be interested to know what triggered off Christopher Howse A> to write the article in the first place - did he happen to be reading A> some other article or book which cited RK's comments on plagiarism, and A> just think, 'that would make a nice article - I'll try it on the Editor A> of the /Daily Telegraph/'? There hasn't recently been a particular A> furore about plagiarism in what is sometimes described as the quality A> media over here. A> Yours, A> /Alastair Wilson/ A> On 30/05/2013 08:48, Yan wrote: >> Dear list members, >> It seems that this “plagiarism letter” becomes a media event. Well, a mission of media is to lift a fact out of context and emphasise it; it seems that the Society may do the opposite work and examine the fact in the context. >> (For me, a good example of such examination was a letter of Alastair Wilson (“The Coward”, February, 13, 2012) concerning John Kipling and "the intriguing proposition” that “Kipling (burdened with guilt about the death of his son) may even have identified himself with the condemned man.") >> By the way, I think that the situation with this letter is fertile in resources, so to say. I do not mean Kipling’s “confession” in the letter specifically; according to the place, time and circumstances one may suppose that Kipling was simply teased a ’Dear Madam’. But the letter, in particular, may give an interesting information for NRG. >> Personally, I am admired the way Kipling converts in his works virtually everything around him - places and place-names, events and names, newspaper information, book citations, etc, etc, etc. >> I’d like to note that, to my thinking, in situations like that it would be much better to comment on Kipling himself than to comment a columnist commenting on Kipling. >> With my regards, >> Yan Shapiro >> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8390 (20130529) __________ >> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> http://www.eset.com