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But I don't think there is really much difficulty separating good faith
from bad

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On 6 May 2014 16:52, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> When it's a contemporary & the plagiarist has done it to get something
> published as his/her own (have there been many women who have done it?)
> thenit seems futile bit of bad faith.
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> But there's also Jonathan Lethem's take on how all art is a kind of
> plagiarism; we can never write something completely 'new' or 'original'...?
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> Doug
> On May 5, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Laziness, panic, narcissism, low self-esteem, ambition, deliberate
> self-sabotage: Why so many poets are plagiarizing...
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> > http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/247130
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> > Ruth Graham: Word Theft:
> > 2013 the year of the plagiarists
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> Douglas Barbour
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