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New Moon: a chick flick waxes philosophical

New Moon: a chick flick waxes philosophical

The movie is stuffed with melodrama and cheesy lines, shirtless men with rock-hard abs, pangs of sappy romantic love, dizzying camera work, racial stereotypes, occasional spurts of humor, love lessons for girls, passable soundtrack, doses of sex appeal, some neat fight sequences, comprehensible mythology, and philosophical musings. All in all, these [...]
The Theory Of Plagiarism, Perhaps!

The Theory Of Plagiarism, Perhaps!

“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.” And let’s, first and foremost, give the credit to Guy Debord for saying so about plagiarism [...]