Here are a few of Lewis Lapham's obituaries

Harpers: https://harpers.org/2024/07/remembering-lewis-lapham/ Lapham's Quarterly: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1... LitHub: https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/

Someone here recommended Lapham's podcast, The World in Time, the last time he came up.

It's amazing! Truly someone out of a different age.

https://pca.st/podcast/daa59d90-feeb-0134-ec79-4114446340cb

The title is explained way down:

> Lewis was fond of saying that “all good editors are pirates”—they steal from everyone

This is a total tangent, but I am amazed by the image at the top of the article. I did not know until today that theatrical sets were ever first designed as models or dioramas, and that one is especially beautiful. I have now embarked on a set design model box research expedition.

The line between an inspiration and plagiarism is perhaps sometimes blurry but there's definitely a line.

But you have to steal something, themes at least if you want to create a piece in a style.

Trying composing a blues song without any "stealing".

Robertson Davies, and E. Anne Proulx used this as a vignette in writing about small town newspaper editors.