Elephant Gratin

‘Copy anyone but never copy yourself.’ Picasso did not of course heed his own advice. Self-plagiarism is probably the most common form of plagiarism. The perpetrator fails to notice – for this or that tic has become a habit, an unacknowledged signature. Equally likely he hopes the world won’t notice it. After all, it’s just about not straying from one’s familiar territory . . . Maybe comfort zones should be razed to the ground. The dedicated plagiarist should have no familiar territory of h