So I’m A Plagiarist

Discussion in 'Reading & Writing' started by Bobby Cole, Dec 12, 2019.

  1. Bobby Cole

    Bobby Cole Supreme Member
    Task Force Registered

    Joined:
    Jan 21, 2015
    Messages:
    13,054
    Likes Received:
    24,630
    I was looking through some of my past writings and came upon this small tidbit called “The Plagiarist”.
    It was fun because as I recall, I tried to fit as many names of books, movies and songs into it as I could think of whilst writing it.

    Hopefully you’ll have a little fun also whilst counting them.....

    It was a dark and stormy night, he wrote. Then, as he re-read his first line he realized his great expectations of becoming a great architect of the written word were nothing more than a towering inferno hidden in the abyss of confusion within his brain

    Thus far it had been a hard day’s night, he thought, I should be sleeping like a log. To sleep, perchance to dream, for even the raven doth sleep and cry, nevermore until the morrow. For now, as the clock struck twelve he felt the pang of his tell tale heart murmuring lamentations over the now blank page before him.

    Questioning himself, should he declare a mutiny on the bounty of words that were escaping his very grasp or struggle with the covenant he promised himself to keep?

    “To be or not to be the writer of words”, he said aloud or should I dare the great escape never to know if his work might possibly be a requiem for the masses?

    It is indeed a thing of human bondage to choose between war and peace with one’s pride and prejudice.

    Perhaps to stroll to the pub at this late hour, he mused. But alas, indeed, the heart is a lonely hunter for even the little women found at the bar, including Alice and her adventures in wonderland cannot cure such a likeness of Don Quixote as I.

    A look, just one look in the mirror for a clue as to my demise. Will the image be that of an invisible man with a heart of darkness or that of he who loves the separate peace?

    Perchance now to rest, for morning marks a new day in 1984 and as my very name is Dorian Grey, the sun will still rise with me or without me. For now, it is as nothing, or gone with the wind.
     
    #1
  2. Bess Barber

    Bess Barber Veteran Member
    Task Force Registered

    Joined:
    Jun 8, 2019
    Messages:
    3,760
    Likes Received:
    7,600
    You should submit it to Readers Digest or somewhere. People would love it!! What a cool idea.
    Still counting...................:)
     
    #2
  3. Shirley Martin

    Shirley Martin Supreme Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Jun 9, 2015
    Messages:
    55,669
    Likes Received:
    23,302
    Did I miss any?
     
    #3
    Yvonne Smith and Bobby Cole like this.
  4. Bobby Cole

    Bobby Cole Supreme Member
    Task Force Registered

    Joined:
    Jan 21, 2015
    Messages:
    13,054
    Likes Received:
    24,630
    I dunno but .....
    As time proceeds, there is wisdom in the counting and though it may never come to live long and prosper, as the night sky doth give way to light we are certain as humans to err and err again.
     
    #4
    Micki Pembroke and Lois Winters like this.
  5. Bill Boggs

    Bill Boggs Supreme Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    May 13, 2015
    Messages:
    5,747
    Likes Received:
    7,721
    Some what of an original idea, I would say, with my limited knowledge.
    Didn't count 'em. Hard to see on Horseback.
    . 6414E38C-E8D3-464A-A3A4-3B8DFFCBE446.jpeg
     
    #5
  6. Patsy Faye

    Patsy Faye Supreme Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Nov 21, 2015
    Messages:
    13,568
    Likes Received:
    16,301
    @Bobby Cole - really clever idea, loved it
    I saw quite a few, if not all - but it is early here
     
    #6
  7. Hal Pollner

    Hal Pollner Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Feb 11, 2018
    Messages:
    6,161
    Likes Received:
    4,368
    It's better being a Plaigarist than to copy someone else's writing!

    Howl
     
    #7
  8. Holly Saunders

    Holly Saunders Supreme Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Nov 16, 2015
    Messages:
    51,949
    Likes Received:
    17,919
    :D:D:D
     
    #8

Share This Page