[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >It would seem to me, as i understand the word, that "pastiche" would refer >to taking sections of howards writing and pasting and changing bits of it >into ones own writings, as decamp did by converting and elaborating stories >to full conan stories rather than just creating new stories set in howards >world.
That's not a pastiche, by either the dictionary or common usage of the word. A pastiche is either trying to write in the style of another (dictionary), or utilizing the worlds/characters/themes developed by another (common). -- David Gentzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pobox.com/~gentzel/