Heros, Zeros & Plagiarism
I was amused by the noise, created by the discovery of alleged plagirism in a book written by a Harvrad Sophomore. It is evident that somebody has worked hard, to read the books in question and come up with a case of plagirism. Add to this lawyers, publishing houses and movie rights, we a cheap version of Boston Legal popping up.
I went thru the so called original author's version an example given below:
"He smelled sweet and woodsy, like cedar"
I don't think there is anything original in this, millions of people would have used the sentence without receiving a penny for it. The many passages claimed to be original, are so cliched that only a person out of his or her mind, will dare to call it original.
Here is another example of the so called original:
"Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend. But that was before Bridget’s braces came off and her boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh-grade honors classes"
I think this phrase would have been said by almost all the teenagers under the sun. I think we have reached a stage where all the possibilities of combining the words have been exhausted and anybody indulging in creative writing, claiming to be really original must be living in fools paradise
I think in this era of instant heros and instant villans, the young author has been made a cannon fodder for News Media, a period of hype followed by a period of character assassination. People who claimed to have spent time discovering similar phrases, probably could have used their time in a better fashion
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