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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:28:18 +1100
MIME-Version: 1.0 reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I couldnt agree more with Richard. What are we if not story merchants, who drop stories into the laps of those who need them, so they will become theirs. As an Australian , the american model of ownership scares the hell out of me. When I toured New York last year, I cut a number of stories with the fear of retribution, jsut in case I had used a phrase that I had picked up - sometimes there is jsut no better way to do it. I hear bizarre stories of tellers suing other tellers when they tell folktales that they have 'made famous'. ? Perhaps these stories get bigger as they cross over the oceans to sydney, but it was my biggest worry in the states. Personal, original stories is one thing, but folktales? Isn't the very essence of telling such stories about giving them away. If you tell it inspired by the way I tell it - so be it. We take inspiration and ideas from each other all the time, dont we? Donna PS: Richard, I know Anna Jarrett very well indeed! ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||