#Thinkers #Workers #Education #Dissent #Originality

Melancholy Elephants

by Spider Robinson

This story is dedicated to Virginia Heinlein.

Thanks to Cory Doctorow for mentioning this. Here's the whole short story in 3 pieces. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants2.html
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants3.html

The Wikipedia article on the story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholy_Elephants) says

"Melancholy Elephants" is a science fiction short story by American-Canadian writer Spider Robinson, published in 1982.
The story examines the interaction of copyright and longevity, and the possible effects of the extension of copyright to perpetuity.
Its title is a reference to claims that elephants "never forget".

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A quotation by Commager, Henry Steele

A nation that silences or intimidates original minds is left only with unoriginal minds and cannot hope to hold its own in the competition of peace or of war.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist

Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954)

#quote #quotation #competition #deviation #heterodoxy #imagination #originality

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/commager-henry-steele/51235/

WIST - Commager, Henry Steele | Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954)

A nation that silences or intimidates original minds is left only with unoriginal minds and cannot hope to hold its own in the competition of peace or of war.

This Online Group Celebrates Sentences That Probably No One Has Ever Thought Of Before, Here Are 50 Of The Best (New Pics) | Bored Panda

The beauty of reading is that you never know what strange word constructions your eyes might come across—it’s an exercise in expanding our imaginations.

I rarely share BoredPanda posts (famous last words) but this is not only a good list of reminders for writers, much of it is laugh-out-loud funny.

#writing #language #originality

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-brand-new-sentence-posts/

This Online Group Celebrates Sentences That Probably No One Has Ever Thought Of Before, Here Are 50 Of The Best (New Pics)

The beauty of writing lies in the fact that sometimes, when you’re caught up in the flow, you never truly know what you’ll end up saying until you put pen to paper.