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just caught up with this
i suggest a further way of looking at it is like _mistakes_
made in taxonomy where creatures look alike in some way but are not
no harm in noting the similarity, but if one is looking at a
body of work or just the development of ideas, be it in a single process of what
alan calls call and response or over a period or a group or both, then it may be
a distraction
i had a flurry of posting some _script poems_ a few days
back and inadvertently posted one elsewhere and immediately two separate people
said Beckett
There may be connections and influence. I read or have read
Beckett. But I believe that a look of the whole set of such writing of *mine,
and I am aware people will be more aware of Beckett, would show that it is
superficial
In UK at least some years ago, there was a similar reference
to Pinter - anything menacing, an apparent non sequitur, an unexpected silence
and everyone said Pinteresque
The question is, surely, what these discerned similarities
tell us; often, I suggest, it is not a lot
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