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The melody was recycled for a lot of different lyrics. Greensleeves was one of the more popular versions. The melody was also used for some Christmas lyrics that became a popular carol. So the melody became associated with Christmas through lyrics that weren't the standard Greensleeves ones...

George Bernard Shaw’s typewriter? I would love that! And the O’Hara/De Kooning production sounds intriguing. But anyway, they're all cheapskates. The most expensive book currently on Abe appears to be a 14th-Century Bible for 2.8 million dollars. Plus 6.50 shipping.

Bettie Page. Doesn't everyone read like that?

Is that all you got out of my reply to your original question?

Hagrid is my favorite overall. Dobby is my favorite voice when I read the books out loud to my little cousins. Tonks is almost exactly like my housemate, so I took to her right away, but she was very underused after she was introduced.

The original post seems to be looking for a dismissive word to contrast with real writers who have a literary style: Hemingway was a writer; King is just a storyteller. That's quite a put-down of the honorable art of storytelling, and also doesn't recognize the importance of storytelling in...

The Internet Public Library.

Infoseek. First search: Lewinsky.

Did the staff member accuse you of trying to sound like Byron, or did she accuse you of plagiarism? Did she even accuse you? Maybe it was a tossed-off comment or an attempt at helpful critique. In any event, you gave a strong impression that you were arguing exclusively from a legal...

Two things: My comment was about copyright and plagiarism in general; it did not address the issue of the one line in your poem, or the editors' judgement, and so forth. On the other hand, the fact that you are still approaching this as an issue of copyright--when you were accused of...

The case isn't closed because plagiarism isn't strictly a legal matter. Copyright and plagiarism are overlapping issues, but plagiarism can be perpetrated on an artistic, creative, and I might even say ethical level, even when it isn't perpetrated on a legal one. Consider this: Byron's work...

It's always painful (read: hugely funny) to watch a vanity writer discover that input wasn't what he wanted after all, and that stroking is harder to get than he thought.

Mark Twain wasn't an idiot. Was he? :confused:

This is where you fail. This is the objective you don't meet. The reader gets no idea of the story from any sentence. No idea builds as the reader reads more and more. You are holding out hope that some reader will understand your writing, but no reader will--whether that reader is "like...

Not enough time was paid on the outline, so we took off early to be at the waterfront. --Unclear (What outline?); passive voice. Eating and watching the sea gullies fly ahead of the wind where it lays this unusual loft near the base of the pillar. --Sentence fragment. Misuse of "this" and...

If I understand correctly, Writer's Showcase is, well, a showcase--not a forum for critique.

The last time you posted a sentence, I pointed out the following problems: These apply to all three sentences in this sample as well. You are focusing on the wrong issues, and asking us about the wrong things. Your writing isn't ready yet for a basic reading, let alone the nuances of...

"South Sea travellers are strikingly different from all other kinds of tourists." Love in the South Seas, Bengt Danielsson.

Yes--it's almost always helpful to set a manuscript aside for a while and look at it fresh.

Don Quixote: the Putnam Translation. This is my favorite translation of Don Quixote, and now I found a fine copy of the first printing from 1949, nicely produced by Viking. More pleasing to hold and read than the Modern Library edition.