Tuesday, February 16, 2010

As For Me, My Psalms

One vote pro, one con; that's what I have so far regarding my Tehillim poems. Someone really likes it. Someone else feels Tehillim were written already and rather than summarize them I should creatively riff on them. When Jimmy Buffet introduced The Eagles as they were about to be inducted into the R and R H of F he said that he took a lot from them. He quoted Mark Twain as saying that creativity is just undetected plagiarism. That came to mind. More to the point I dislike that riffing on tradition often turns negative. If I can think of a way to riff positively on Tehillim I might do it. But I'm happy to retread in the sense of re-walking where Dovid went. I don't need to retread in terms of re-inventing his wheels.

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