Tuned in carefully

Sheila Lennon:

Aristotle,

You’ll get no argument from me about parallel invention. It’s almost a given among artists and writers that the ideas are in the air, and we’re good radios – which makes ownership of a concept doubly odd, and places the burden on what you do with that idea besides clutch it to your bosom.

[This was a comment to a now deleted weblog entry of Shelley Powers.]