Posts by Bart Janssen
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I kind of disagree that the word sorry is over used.
All too often people seem to go to extraordinary lengths to avoid having to use the word when they've fucked up. Even to the extent of avoid repairing the harm because that would be like admitting there was a problem.
In my own life I find that when I make a mess of things that saying sorry early seems to allow me the opportunity to try and fix things.
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They never die
On dark cold nights when the wind is howling and the drizzle seeps slowly into the untreated timber of your leaky home ... it is then that the dormant threads reanimate ... and in the background a lone banjo plays...
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- but I'm sure universities in general would not hold a piece of fiction to the same standard as an academic essay/publication. And nor should the standard be exactly the same.
Actually I disagree completely. The person in question is employed in no small part by the University for his expertise as a novelist. It is his skill with the fictional word that is is his professional expertise. It is no different than a scientist copying a figure for a review without referencing the primary authors.
And even if he were a chemist who wrote a novel that included plagiarism, it would speak to his integrity and that is important.
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the occasional Dr. Gracewood would be nice
Damn straight!
Lord knows the pain of getting the degree doesn't reward you with money so just the occasional recognition especially when they are referring to the outcome of your professional expertise ...
Besides very very very rarely that title might get you an upgrade from cattle class on the plane :).
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needs more xylophone! ;-D
Cowbell!
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hmmm... 20 pages?
0.4% = 2 pages
Which is exactly 2 pages too many.
It's weird an engineering school would simply throw someone out for this and for an engineer writing is not the whole of the craft. Quite rightly of course because it speaks to integrity and for an engineer integrity = lives.
But for an author writing is the whole of the craft. The creative effort is the thing. There may not be lives at stake but surely for an author crediting another author's work should be paramount. It will of course be more complicated and I do get that but still...
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Just as a comment about the University's reaction. I think most people still think of Universities as academic and pure organisations. However, nowadays they are under tremendous pressure to bring in paying students and an author that well known does bring in students. That creates a conflict for the University that is uncomfortable for everyone. The cost of showing him the door would be large and could well leave them open to legal comeback.
The cost of slapping him on the wrist and keeping him is merely a moral one.
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So sorry to hear about your father. I know the sympathy of strangers can do little to ease the hurt but you have my sympathy nonetheless.
The words will fall back into place but it will take time. Talking with friends helped me, as did walking over most of Auckland in the week after my father died. But mostly it seems like it is just time that allows your thoughts to re-organise themselves.
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you pretty much had to be living in a shoebox in middle of t' road to qualify
Because it's Friday
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More CRI time totally wasted listening to music.!!!
Hey I was actually writing while listening to it! So speak for your own CRI :P