Erik Campbell’s “The Accidental Plagiarist,” from the Spring VQR, is getting a great deal of attention from the internets. Campbell’s thesis is basically that you shouldn’t even try to be original because, really, it’s not possible. Accidental plagiarism is inevitable. Anybody who writes publicly, on blogs or otherwise, will appreciate it.
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It’s David Foster Wallace, except whiny and not nearly as clever. Seriously, this made me itch.
It occurs to me that the bajillion bloggers who have linked to this in the past three days likely all love David Foster Wallace. I’m yet to read anything by him that I liked.