hello world, sent this out to mi crew
beale street sally AI word by rdoc
Amateurs Borrow, Professionals Steal
Hello everybody, a quick word about plagiarism
cause im looking at the long knives coming for Gay
got to use this as a Teaching Moment
they always do and you cant leave any vulnerabilities
in your work for them to discredit you
every writer ‘plagiarizes’, its how you become the
latest word on a subject, you suck up everything
from the folk who have grappled with this subject
before and you try to be the next step
in literary myth Hemmingway told Faulkner
(actually lennon stole from TS Elliot who said
"amatuer poets borrow, mature poets steal"
lennon plagiarized him and lennons version stuck
amateurs borrow professional steal
referring to act of research digestion
got to digest it and spit it out transformed
you can kinda tell when a writer has
not fully digested their research
plagiarism happens when you did not fully chew it up
but sometimes you got those undigested research
passages and you vaguely think this is not my voice
but by that time you’ve lost track of what is and what isn’t,
if you get that little twinge, play with it some more
the easiest kill is changing the narrative format
now you can get away with it at this stage
your profile is not high enuf for the Long Knives
to come after you, but if you do become the
Cultural Forces you training to be
its likely the Long Knives will come after you
and try to discredit your work, in your Lifetime
or after you are Gone
So always write defensively
As artists and mystics we have more room
to roam than academics but still
Fort Pillow plays a large part in my novel where
Nathan Forrestt killed black soldiers during Civil War
I had written this scene of overrunning the fort
like it was the Alamo, or Fort Apache
then thought I need to Walk the Ground
(always Walk the Ground if you can
I once used gooogle world to walk the
streets of Timbucktu, just in case . .;)
they have rebuilt Pillow outside memphis as a southern shrine,
so I went, it’s a dirt berm with canons,, if I had published
my alamo version in my attempt to discredit forrests myth
the southern apologists woulda laughed me off the Board
“old colored boy don’t know what he talking about
Gen forrest smoked him like he did them others
one more point I studied w/ the babajohn for 16 years
and folk often ask what did you study for 16 years
Well 1st he taught us how to write
Then he taught us to be writers
how to live by the Code
Then how to get published
Then distribution and promotion
Then how to be Cultural Forces
Taught us to be Visionaries
Taught us to be Playas
My job is helping you navigate all the moves, all of them
And point out the ambushes so you see them before they see you
be safe be productuve
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