john3859
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the play-writing line it is still worse for you. "Why don't
you write plays like Shakespeare's?" they indignantly say. "Shakespeare
never made his comic man a penny steamboat captain." "Shakespeare
never made his hero address the girl as 'ducky.' Why don't you copy
Shakespeare?" If you do try to copy Shakespearethey tell you that you
must be a fool to attempt to imitate Shakespeare.
Ohshouldn't I like to get Shakespeare up our streetand punch him On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published bbaahiyk[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!
I cannot help that replied my critical friend--to return to our
previous question--the germ of every thought and idea you have got in
that article can be traced back to the writers I have named. If you doubt
itI will get down the booksand show you the passages for yourself.
But I declined the offer. I said I would take his word for itand
would rather not see the passages referred to. I felt indignant. "If as I
said
these men--these Platos and Socrateses and Ciceros and
Sophocleses and Aristophaneses and Aristotles and the rest of them had
been taking advantage of my absence to go about the world spoiling my
business for meI would rather not hear any more about them."
And I put on my hat and came outand I have never tried to write
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