"Degenerating Decency Miami beach to Washington"
Eyebrows Are Raised Over Passages in a Best Seller by Ian McEwan
McEwan has been accused of copying phrases (for none other than "Atonement"), from “No Time for Romance,” the memoir of Lucilla Andrews who was a British novelist who wrote hospital romances.
"In the article Mr. McEwan continued: “I have openly acknowledged my debt to her in the author’s note at the end of ‘Atonement,’ and ever since on public platforms, where questions on research are almost as frequent as ‘where do you get your ideas from?’ ” "
Though the article has quoted only one example of a copied paragraph there could be several more. Going by just that paragraph it does not really seem like plagiarism to me.
I found the article interesting because it mentioned Lucilla Andrews. I have read a few of her books, as a teenager. They are like all romantic novels in that the hero and heroine hate each other for the first half of the book. I remember loving those books.
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I have a copy of Atonement in Cochin. Among several other books I left unread. Here, the luxury of free access to so many books and movies has dulled my senses and reduced my attention span to that of a three year old. I need to check my impulses and resolve not to stagnate my taste. I also feel that the more I speak the less I am able to write; not that writing has ever been a thing for me. But my written vocabulary used to be different and better than my spoken one. Now I just have a small potpourri of words from different languages from which I generate insipid verbal material. Wow, that sentence sounds so fake; now that a poor vocabulary is a part of my identity itself.
McEwan has been accused of copying phrases (for none other than "Atonement"), from “No Time for Romance,” the memoir of Lucilla Andrews who was a British novelist who wrote hospital romances.
"In the article Mr. McEwan continued: “I have openly acknowledged my debt to her in the author’s note at the end of ‘Atonement,’ and ever since on public platforms, where questions on research are almost as frequent as ‘where do you get your ideas from?’ ” "
Though the article has quoted only one example of a copied paragraph there could be several more. Going by just that paragraph it does not really seem like plagiarism to me.
I found the article interesting because it mentioned Lucilla Andrews. I have read a few of her books, as a teenager. They are like all romantic novels in that the hero and heroine hate each other for the first half of the book. I remember loving those books.
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I have a copy of Atonement in Cochin. Among several other books I left unread. Here, the luxury of free access to so many books and movies has dulled my senses and reduced my attention span to that of a three year old. I need to check my impulses and resolve not to stagnate my taste. I also feel that the more I speak the less I am able to write; not that writing has ever been a thing for me. But my written vocabulary used to be different and better than my spoken one. Now I just have a small potpourri of words from different languages from which I generate insipid verbal material. Wow, that sentence sounds so fake; now that a poor vocabulary is a part of my identity itself.