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Originally Posted by Andrew Mandelbaum
Have you seen the French version?
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I take Storr at his word about the poems' similarity. It would be awfully sloppy of him to characterize DesRuisseaux's poem in the way I've quoted above if it included things (other than the closer) that weren't in the poem Lightman accuses him of plagiarizing. Some journalists are sloppy; maybe it's sloppy of me to assume Storr isn't one of them.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Mandelbaum
I wonder how many great lines have been written twice or more times, independently.
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Yes. One line is a very different matter. I take that to be a large part of the point of what Storr calls Lightman's golden rule, that plagiarists never do it once.