Wilder Ripped Off James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

 I hope the review mentions that, and the reviewer is familiar with the earlier work.

Michael Paulson

@MichaelPaulson

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Tonight I'm seeing a new Broadway revival of "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's epic Pulitzer-winning 1942 play, on Broadway via

@LCTheater

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@taffyakner

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#GiveCreditWhereCreditIsDue 

I would definitely want to go see that play were I in New York during the Merry Month of May.  I'm booked from the 8th through the 26th at an upcoming vocational retraining program though.  An opportunity to seize:  they are investing in our tools, and setting us up in a hotel for the (unpaid) training even, 7-5 M-Th, 7-3 F.  Union job potentially, with placement help, in hopes of recruiting the underrepresented to the ranks. Moved on from Journalism to Marketing (via corporate newsletters) to Law to... (once a shark stops swimming, he's dying.  "Get busy living, or get busy dying" ~Shawshank)

I wouldn't have taken the Ramsey Basic test, interviewed, and signed up for the opportunity to be one of the 14 people chosen if I didn't think I could hold my own...  Not my father's profession either.  (or my mother's, for that matter.)  #AreYouAreYouForIndepence? #AreYouForThePursuitOfHappiness  #BuildBabyBuild! 

Don't Believe Me, Just Watch

ADDED:  Not saying that as a negative, necessarily:  all the greats "rip off"of one another... But like being a good lover: it's a freewill give and take. You have to bring something to the party too, even the higher ups.  It's when folks try to silence the conversation, and pretend theirs is the lead voice in a dialogue monologue and refuse to credit those lessers who spurred you on in your ideas, activities and ways of thinking... That's what makes the ripoff artists look small.  

A lot of professor types tend to do that, imo.  Instead of crediting others, and drawing them in, they fear others discovering they aren't the original talent they appear.  Catches up to them eventually, if they can't think or write their way out of a paper bag without outside influence. 

Thornton Wilder was definitely an original himself.

 #BeAnOriginalBeforeYouReproduce   or #GiveCreditWhereCreditIsDue