I really enjoyed reading "Texts Without Context" by Michiko Kakutani, especially the first section concerning plagiarism. Jaron Lanier makes a case for plagiarism by describing the "mashup" of thinking in the modern world as positive because new culminations of previous thinking lead to ideas "more important than the sources who were mashed." ...These ideas, while not obviously related to our fact vs fiction discussion, made me see the fact vs fiction problem in a new way. Maybe the "mashup" of ideas that Lanier describes is similar to a memoir writer's "mashup" of experiences.

Hi Everyone,

 Hey， I am Bingqing. I am a member of Emily Balch Seminar 20. Here is a link to website about Chinese creation myth, Pangu and The Creation of the World.  This is my favourite one compare to many of other creation myths. 

The Pangu's story is on the central part of the web wage.

www.livingmyths.com/Chinese.htm  

 While reading the excerpt from Patricia Hampl's book, what stuck out the most to me was: "For the memoirist, more than for the fiction writer, the story seems already accomplished and fully achieved in history ("in reality", as we naively say)".

 My name is Tyler and I am extremely excited to take this course. I read the article "Memory and Imagination" and enjoyed the quote, "True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world"(Hampl).