A musical composition is a script for performance. Think of Bach or Mozart, whose music was mostly performed by others. This is not true of nonfiction, so it's not clear what the analogy would be.https://twitter.com/KevinSimler/status/1158136084951261185 …
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Borges played with this idea in Pierre Menard, where an author goes beyond merely being inspired by Don Quixote and ends up “recreating it” line by line. It brings up good questions about originality/authorship, perhaps going a bit further than what
@KevinSimler was asking though
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Take the next step and read “On Literature” by Umberto Eco. Many essays about intertextuality.pic.twitter.com/KPgfD5UZXH
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