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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:41:15 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If we could just get it that there really is enough to go around ... So much of this ownership of stories comes from a place of scarcity and fear instead of a recognition of abundance and gratitude. End of lecture for the day. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "donna" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:28 PM Subject: Re: Something from Nothing was Re: story of re-use > 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 > ------------------------------- ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||