Authors who are asked about their influences and go back hundreds of years to Shakespeare and Chaucer and the Iliad are cowards beneath contempt Authors who openly admit that they're influenced by big pop culture franchises (that might sue them) meet the bare minimum of decency
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Like it's not that I disbelieve that George Lucas was influenced by Kurosawa and Joseph Campbell and all that with Star Wars, at many points those influences are obvious I dislike that he pretends not to know Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were a thing before his movie though
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(I'm a big fan of your work BTW, so please don't think this was directed at you)
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Oh, good! That’s me off the hook, then. The first tweet was so blankety and unconditional, I thought maybe I was going to have to sneak out and burn all my classics references to escape universal contempt.
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I apologize for going off in an undirected way about my frustration with one specific (very famous) person
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