Tuesday, 1 August 2006

Fewtril #110

A great test of character is whether one can — for the sake of truth or beauty or virtue — forbear originality.
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous3 August 2006 at 05:41

    I sometimes wonder if nowadays the creative imitation of a Vergil or a Milton would be dismissed as plagiarism.

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  2. dearieme3 August 2006 at 10:26

    It would be OK if it were "subversive", Tom.

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  3. Deogolwulf10 August 2006 at 15:45

    Thanks, Bill. Yes, I mean in the sense of novelty. I think the word "originality" in this sense brings to mind more readily than the word "novelty" a sense also of egotism - besides, it is the word the senseless novelty-mongers use of themselves.

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