Posts by Ngaire BookieMonster
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Great interview Jolisa, glad I saw your tweet about it. Brought it back to the basic point - cut and paste.
The University keeps using words like "inadvertent" and "no deliberate wrongdoing". How hard would it be to give a plausible scenario of why this is so? "Months ago I put the passages in as placeholders with the intention of going back and rewriting, and then I completely forgot I had done that."
It's not pretty and it's no less stupid, but at least it would be honest.Nevertheless, I wonder what the UoA wil think of the quote from American academic Margaret Soltan, "Pretending it didn't happen is the sort of thing a very provincial university wiill do"
Ouch.
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My friends would have been somewhat shattered, though, to realise that it could treble in size when aroused.
Lawks, he's skating towards the Bad Sex Award there.
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Sadly, no copies have yet come up for sale on Trade Me.
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Thanks for the link Jolisa. :)
I hadn't seen this interview on Stuff, but it doesn't address any actual details, does it? Still no answers but plenty of obfuscation.I have two more questions now. What's problematic about "acknowledgement of historical material and historical inspirations"? I'm sure I could probably pull several novels off my shelves that do that with no problems.
And why can't fiction writers use footnotes? If we're going into bold, new territory why stay stuck in past conventions...
And I noted in the Stuff article this comment from Geoff Walker "It is a long and accepted tradition that goes back to Shakespeare" in regards to drawing on the work of others. Almost needs an attribution to Andrew Motion http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article6908977.ece
:) Yes that was just being mischievous for the fun of it.