Back in 2010, Kaavya Viswanathan, a college student, published a novel which was hailed and lauded. Then someone discovered that some certain passages in her book bore a resembalence to some certain passages in other books and a great hysteria enveloped the publishing world. She was denounced far and wide as a vile, disgusting plagiarist and her literary career was destroyed before it had even got further than the runway. I was sickened at the way she was treated, for what seemed to me to be minor transgressions, transgressions which were probably wholly unconscious at that. It happens all the time. Around the same time the historian Stephen Ambrose got hit for the same thing. Commotion ensued. Total bullshit. Our unconscious minds regurgitate stuff we've absorbed- its part of the creative process. In response to all this, I cut-up a section of a news article about the college student,, spliced together with one about the star spangled banner being sung in Spanish somewhere, as well as one about the then current "satanic panic" of certain idiotic christians over Harry Potter books being found in high (!) school libraries. Thus, what you see above.
