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Re:Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction by bbctol on Sunday July 30, 2017 @01:22PM (#14886897)
Similar to the plot of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...

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Re:Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction by ivanbakel on Sunday July 30, 2017 @09:03PM (#14888838)
I wouldn't agree. Menard is about authorship of a rewritten identical work - the GP was talking about people selecting works to potentially produce a different canon, and there's no question of an author.
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Re:Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction by bbctol on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:34AM (#14891775)
Right... but it's similar.
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