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Subject: Re: NastyGoon lifts a line
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:21:14 +0000
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:18:46 +0000, NancyGene wrote:

> We searched the BOOKS "The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975"
> and "The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005," with no results
> for "The Days Pile Up" or "The days pile up like unread newspapers."
> Undeterred, we then searched the BOOKS for the words "newspapers,"
> "piled," or "unread," with no results for a poem with even a tiny
> resemblance to the poem Mr. Dance insists that we plagiarized. We have
> also searched other collections of Robert Creeley BOOKS, with no results
> for "The Days Pile Up" or "The days pile up like unread newspapers" as
> the first (or any) line.
>
> Mr. Creeley died in 2005.  The above are his complete published works,
> with titles and first lines of the poems.  If Mr. Dance has a secret
> cache of unpublished Creeley poems, he should let the Creeley estate
> know about it.

It appears that, once again, George Dance has been caught telling a very
big lie.

Was anyone actually surprised?

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