on 4/2/01 5:27 PM, j3s at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> Actually, the original quote (by TS Eliot) is "a bad poet imitates, a
>> good poet steals."  And I think the implication is that, instead of
>> copying an artist you like a lot, you go ahead and rip off whatever he
>> or she did, then actually GO somewhere with it.  It's kind of like "get
>> over trying to be 'original,' everything's been done, just try to do it
>> better."
> 
> ...one of the fundamental ideas behind postmodernism.
> 
> next question is, where do we go from here?

Nowhere, life's a loop.


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