On Nov 19, 2011, at 2:25 PM, John wrote: > Ray, have just been watching a movie 'Doctor Mordrid (1992) and mentioned > several times was "The Philosophers Stone" obviously J K Rowling later wrote > a book about the Philosophers Stone. > > Which begs the question, have you written something that you subsequently > recognised may have been influenced by a past experience, say a book or > movie, and therefore changed it? Or when you recognise it thought, hey what a > coincidence? > -- >
Two things. First the concept of the Philosopher's Stone (Alchemist Stone) is pretty old, it's the magic that changes base metals into gold. So I'm sure both writers were going back to older sources. I have mentioned before I borrowed the Tsurani ship in Magician from the Korda Brother's film of The Thief of Bagdad without realizing it until I saw the film a few years after publication of the book. It was at a retrospective/art theater and I hadn't seen the film since I was a kid. So if anyone wants to see what that Tsurani ship looked like, rent the film. It's a great movie fantasy, anyway. I suspect there are some other things that stuck from when I was a kid, but nothing else springs to mind. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
