Slog - Comments on "It Is Then That I Plagiarized From You" http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/it_is_then_that_i_plagiarized_from_you Bookslut links to a story about the origin of the "Footprints" poem that's absolutely everywhere. There are a number of people who are claiming to have written the poem, and most of them want royalties. Although several people have suggested to Webb, as consolation, that God gave the idea to multiple authors in order to more efficiently spread His Word, Webb is unsettled by the idea that “the Lord would be the author of confusion.” However the verse came into being, its message has reached all over the world. “Footprints” is the kind of poem we all seem to... Copyright 2008 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:17:50 -0800 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:26:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Wurm hrm, the author of confusion you say?.... could it be.....

SATAN?

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]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/it_is_then_that_i_plagiarized_from_you#c1051755 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/it_is_then_that_i_plagiarized_from_you#c1051755 Books Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:39:07 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Wow, Carolyn Joyce Carty is seventy kinds of crazy. Her Wikipedia page is a masterpiece of total idiocy.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/it_is_then_that_i_plagiarized_from_you#c1051816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/it_is_then_that_i_plagiarized_from_you#c1051816 Books Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:35:24 -0800 Comment by elswinger Ellen Degeneris and David Cross have done the best interpretations of "Footprints" therefor they should split the royalties.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/it_is_then_that_i_plagiarized_from_you#c1051849 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/it_is_then_that_i_plagiarized_from_you#c1051849 Books Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:53:43 -0800 Comment by antiuser Wow. The comments on that Poetry Foundation story are indeed priceless. As is the edits history of the Carolyn Joyce Carty article on Wikipedia (which was created by Carolyn herself), and how she keeps trying to insert self-promotional links in other Wikipedia articles. I love how she claims "once in [her] life, [she] had excellent writing skills".

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