TRP letter re Ian McEwan

[Seb Thirlway]

--- Matthew Ryan <matthew.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
> -Wilson Mizner

Or as Tom Lehrer put it...

"Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'."

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Lobachevsky-lyrics-Tom-Lehrer/D97B21BF6516390448256A7D0024B8B9

And a verse that now _really_ speaks to me, after last night following up those topology links
someone posted here:

"I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It was on analytic and
algebraic topology of locally Euclidean parameterization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian
manifold.

Bozhe moi!
This I know from NOTHING."

best


seb

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