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sometimes art imitates life

July 2, 2012 by L.S. Johnson

i have been dumping a lot of pictures onto pinterest:

http://pinterest.com/houseofpelerin/the-novel/

it’s a nice way to start off a writing session.  baroque on the headphones, pictures to look at . . . and away we go, back in the zone.

but i was thinking of rings the other day, for a particular trigger memory, and i was googling different keywords, and i came across this:

6a014e88704e97970d0176160b53d1970c-120wi

oh my goodness—

because this is pretty much exactly what i had imagined.  which is not that remarkable in and of itself, it’s not like i had imagined something very elaborate.  but still.  it did stop me in my tracks.

now with this kind of thing, is it synchronicity? a subconscious plagiarism? or is either too much to read into a piece of jewelry this simple?

no matter what, i am once again thinking: writing is never truly original.  you are, at best, funneling a vast history of ideas and stories and things through your particular filters—in short, your primary contribution is the how.

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