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You know what grinds my gears?
Literary piracy. If you didn't write it, but you try to pretend that you did, you just made my list of People I Hate Most In Life. For all time.
This was a post by moonwing5 in the Poetry and Lyrics Arena. Sound familiar?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
Yeah, it rang a bell with me, too. So I googled it, and guess what? This poem was published by ROBERT FREAKIN FROST in 1920. How did moonwing5 expect to get away with it, I ask you, how?! So I reported the idiot, and hopefully the Gaia moderaters will do away with him. I also left him the following comment:
Piracy is illegal, and the poem you just tried to copy, Mountain Interval, The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost, 1920, published by New York; Henry Holt and Company) is an American classic studied in nearly every public high school by junior year. Piracy is illegal and, personally, I have no idea how you expected to get away with it this time, since you used such a well-known poem. In the stead of true authors every year, I condemn you. Your post has been reported. Scum need not populate Gaia- do not come back.
Is it a little harsh? Actually, I tend to think that I was too nice. Thieves and pirates and scum deserve no respect or courtesy.
Literary piracy. If you didn't write it, but you try to pretend that you did, you just made my list of People I Hate Most In Life. For all time.
This was a post by moonwing5 in the Poetry and Lyrics Arena. Sound familiar?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
Yeah, it rang a bell with me, too. So I googled it, and guess what? This poem was published by ROBERT FREAKIN FROST in 1920. How did moonwing5 expect to get away with it, I ask you, how?! So I reported the idiot, and hopefully the Gaia moderaters will do away with him. I also left him the following comment:
Piracy is illegal, and the poem you just tried to copy, Mountain Interval, The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost, 1920, published by New York; Henry Holt and Company) is an American classic studied in nearly every public high school by junior year. Piracy is illegal and, personally, I have no idea how you expected to get away with it this time, since you used such a well-known poem. In the stead of true authors every year, I condemn you. Your post has been reported. Scum need not populate Gaia- do not come back.
Is it a little harsh? Actually, I tend to think that I was too nice. Thieves and pirates and scum deserve no respect or courtesy.
Thought that, this being a literary guild, I ought to share this idiot with you and earn him some of that fame he was apparently craving in the Arenas. May I never come across him again.
