steepholm

I vaguely recall it was amongst other things about (and not necessarily originally, rather possibly by way of drifting in discussion and especially some of us doing so;) onto several severe letter layers of Pamelas and anti-Pamelas, not necessarily Richardson's "own", for all the possible inspirations and followers all the way from the satyrical virtues of the Marquise leading on to the misfortunes of Durrell's Justine to the Lorelei golddigger souls of Loos' sirens but what with the reading groups Richardson let advise him to revise and rewrite his text to improve its morals and the mixture or rather mixing up of "fact" and fiction at trying to find out which is what and most of all: by whom...I believe I came up with fan-fic and Brechtian beggar's borrowing now called "sampling" as a so-called modern version of this thing that was done shamelessly in abundance in antiquity already with various intentions we all wish to know as little as possible about, genre poets like Virgil saying they were not at all...oh, I think, I may be drifting;)
What LJ lacks, is a search engine worthy the name (what should we name it?) but LJ is literally not showing any interest(s); mine at least have gone all invisible and I took extra pain to think up 150 sillinesses!