Original thought is dead: Goethe rolls in grave
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010. Filed under: arts blogs crime cultural elite education error 404 kultuur lifestyle news random wtf
Once the beacon of fine literature, Germany reels as top selling author pronounces original ideas irrelevant.
Only authenticity exists, insists teen sensation when remorselessly admitting to plagiarism.
The cool as a cucumber copy cat confessed to lifting whole chapters of her “autobiographical” tome from a total stranger’s blog, rationalizing:
“I helped myself to anything I thought described the way of life I was going for”
Gee, I think I’ll start on my own memoirs now: I was born April 21, 1926, the eldest daughter of the Prince of York…






















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