Never mind, I googled on his book and see that he's at U of Washington; I've
added his book to my long Amazon Wish List.
It crossed my mind that he might be Professor Shields here at Thomas Aquinas
College! In 2005 I believe it was, I paid him handsomely to edit a few
folios of my work on the De Magia naturali. Unfortunately, he seemed too
hungry for the subject matter and kept going ahead of me rather than working
on what I'd done, saying excitedly that after it was translated then we
could start writing about it! He said that he hadn't read any of the
background materials I had shown him that I was using to interpret the
treatise. He said words to the effect that it was a good thing the Jews keep
the Bible for us, so that no one can change it.
We are such very different people that I thought it best not to continue
paying Professor Shields to edit my work. His house is decorated very
sparsely in tan tones, not colorful, with a crucifix hanging over his front
door as you walk in---or it was decorated that way. I dress very colorfully,
flambouyantly sometimes, and our house is decorated that way too; many
colorful paintings, rugs, photos, and fetishes from all of the major
religions I think and Neoshaman/Neopagan fetishes too.
The last time I saw Professor Shields was at Vons when I was job-training
our autistic son to work as grocery clerk-bagger. I greeted Professor
Shields warmly, complimenting his institution on their beautiful new chapel
I'd seen. He replied with words to the effect, from outside right?. Yes, I
reassured him. Ah well.
So gentlemen, I have a file box in my garage with hard-copy documentation of
the transactions that took place between Professor Shields and myself.
Hopefully it won't magically disappear by "using magic in doing academic
work" before you have a chance to review it should you be interested.
Interesting also is that when I met Antoine Faivre at AAR in San Diego
during a Western Esotericism group session, he looked me up and down and
told me I should go to the New Religious Movements group.
I had hoped that Neoshamans/Pagans would be welcome to study the Ficino era
of scholarly material, not just New Religious Movements.
Are there any more questions gentlemen, or should I just leave the list now
and go back to my Pagan colleagues on the SASM listserv? Perhaps you'd like
me to answer a question on Anthropology?
Kathryn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathryn Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: plagiarism
> Hilmar, thank you for suggesting a literary piece. I don't know David
> Shields' work, but I'll put "Reality Hunger: A Manifesto" on my book
> wish-list. Is he an Inde or at an Institution?
>
> Kathryn
>
> Kathryn LaFevers Evans
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hilmar Pabel" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:02 AM
> Subject: plagiarism
>
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I have discovered an instance of plagiarism in a late sixteenth-century
>> devotional text in which a Dutch Catholic writer plagiarized a late
>> Italian fifteenth-century writer who had been executed for heresy. It
>> made a good deal of sense, I imagine, for the Catholic author not to
>> reveal his source so as not to be seen as fraternizing with the outcast.
>>
>> From a quick scan of bibliographical references, I am sure plagiarism was
>> legion in the Renaissance and Reformation. I am wondering whether
>> plagiarism was considered as inappropriate then as we consider it today.
>> Erasmus defended himself against the charge of plagiarism, I believe,
>> when compiling his adages.
>>
>> Could anyone recommend essential studies that address generally the
>> ethics and practice of plagiarism in the early modern period? I am aware
>> of Paulina Kewes, ed., Plagiarism in early modern England (2003) and an
>> essay by Giles Constable on "Forgery and Plagiarism in the Middle Ages."
>>
>> Finally, still on the topic of plagiarism, would anyone, esp. colleagues
>> in literary studies, recommend for serious attention David Shields' new
>> book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Originally yours,
>>
>> Hilmar Pabel.
>>
>> --
>> Hilmar M. Pabel
>> Department of History
>> Simon Fraser University
>> 8888 University Drive
>> Burnaby, BC
>> V5A 1S6
>> Canada
>> 778-782-5816 (phone)
>> 778-782-5837 (fax)
>> [log in to unmask]
>> www.sfu.ca/~pabel
>>
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