boblq wrote:
> 
> Mumble, talking to myself in public again, hack, cough, sputter ...
> 
> One creative result has come of this. There is a need for
> some variation on the theme of "copyright." One needs a 
> right of dissociation, a right to disavow authorship. Not sure
> what to call that right. What is the opposite to paternity? A
> word for not being a parent, not being an author or owner
> of some liability. "minusright?" 

I think they call this the Fifth Ammendment.

> I am reminded of a comment I once read. An elder author
> was asked by a young man to read his first novel. After a
> short while the young man asked him what he thought
> whereupon the old man said, 
> 
>       "You should put this novel in the locked drawer of
>        a desk. Then burn the desk. Then burn down the 
>        house that the desk is in. Then leave town in the
>          dark of night. Don't ever come back. I will pretend
>        it never happened." 

Sounds like he's talking about the novel I wrote in November.

-john


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