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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
