Jan
7
From the New York Times: “Neale Donald Walsch, author of the best-selling series ‘Conversations With God,’ recently posted a personal Christmas essay on the spiritual Web site Beliefnet.com about his son’s kindergarten winter pageant.
“During a dress rehearsal, he wrote, a group of children spelled out the title of a song, ‘Christmas Love,’ with each child holding up a letter. One girl held the ‘m’ upside down, so that it appeared as a ‘w,’ and it looked as if the group was spelling ‘Christ Was Love.’ It was a heartwarming Christmas story from a writer known for his spiritual teachings.
“Except it never happened — to him.”
At Poegles.com, we’re fans of plagiarism- of the sort where scraps of text are repurposed in the body of a different work. But stealing an entire narrative? Boo!