Friday, August 10, 2007

Howards End and On Beauty


Is the essay finished?

Almost. I just have to make sure of the references. Do you know Old Mudgeley made us cite ten books in the bibliography, in addition to any Internet references?

Books?

He doesn’t trust the Internet. Suspicious of Google. Fails the essay if there are any Wikipedia references.

Doesn't trust Wiki?

Says there are mistakes. Not written by experts.

Fossil. Tell him to read the Nature article, the comparison between Britannica and Wiki. And anyway, Wiki flags places where there a citation is needed, which is more than Britannica does. So the essay is finished?

Hard getting started. I was wondering how to begin it when the phrase, “One might as well begin…” flashed into my head.

E.M. Forster?

Howards End. Right. “One might as well begin with Helen’s letters to her sister.”

Hang on. I read another book recently that began with the same opening. Zadie Smith’s On Beauty. She just lifted the whole beginning structure and phrasing of Howards End and transplanted it into the 21st century. “One may as well begin with Jerome’s email to his father.” I googled that phrase both of them tumbled out. Google is scary like that.

Maybe old Mudgeley could check for plagiarism using google.

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