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There’s a word for everything

4/28/2006 - 30 Nisan, 5766

(cryp·tom·ne·sia) (krip²tom-ne¢zh[schwa]) [crypto- + Gr. mnasthai to be mindful] the recall of memories not recognized as such but thought to be original creations.

According to Wikipedia:

Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spoke Zarathustra includes an almost word for word account of an incident also included in a book published about 1835, half a century before Nietzsche wrote. This is neither considered to be purposeful plagiarism nor pure coincidence. Nietzsche’s sister confirmed that he had indeed read the original account when he was 11-years-old.

There’s also, apparently, a 1916 German short story, written by Heinz von Eschwege, about a middle-aged man traveling abroad who becomes obsessed with a young pre-teen girl named Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov composed his Lolita in the 1950s, but lived for some time in the same section of Berlin as von Eschwege, and was likely familiar with his work.

So it does happen.

National Anthems and Rhetorical Questions

4/28/2006 - 30 Nisan, 5766

Joe, Speed, Mel, Mario, and me

4/27/2006 - 29 Nisan, 5766

sundry thoughts

4/27/2006 - 29 Nisan, 5766

Will and Grace - the conclusion

4/24/2006 - 26 Nisan, 5766

ShowMeCon IV

4/23/2006 - 25 Nisan, 5766

Forget Ishmael, Call me Fan-boy

4/20/2006 - 22 Nisan, 5766

Su-wha?

4/20/2006 - 22 Nisan, 5766

Where I’ll be this weekend

4/20/2006 - 22 Nisan, 5766

I’m a formalist

4/20/2006 - 22 Nisan, 5766

Dewey has her number

4/20/2006 - 22 Nisan, 5766

What I like About Jew

4/11/2006 - 13 Nisan, 5766

Who am I?

4/10/2006 - 12 Nisan, 5766

Lyrics are poetry too…

4/9/2006 - 11 Nisan, 5766

wheeeeeee

4/9/2006 - 11 Nisan, 5766

In Vinum Veritas

4/9/2006 - 11 Nisan, 5766

Saturday’s Child

4/8/2006 - 10 Nisan, 5766

No one wrote a poem about me when I was six

4/7/2006 - 9 Nisan, 5766

cur…cur…cur…cur…curses

4/6/2006 - 8 Nisan, 5766

Newest entry to list of ‘published works’

4/5/2006 - 7 Nisan, 5766

More juvenalia

4/5/2006 - 7 Nisan, 5766

Not Shakespeare

4/4/2006 - 6 Nisan, 5766

13 run pool ends early in opening week.

4/4/2006 - 6 Nisan, 5766

It’s always Sabbath somewhere.

4/4/2006 - 6 Nisan, 5766

Home

4/3/2006 - 5 Nisan, 5766

Opening Game

4/2/2006 - 4 Nisan, 5766

NPM

4/1/2006 - 3 Nisan, 5766