You thought it was a good chance to play with the chip on your
shoulder. The only thing serious about this is your libeling Dale. I
certainly hope he's thinking of doing something about it. I'd be a
witness and testify to how much I tried to show you why you're wrong.
Well - although I went through this before (the litigation thing) when -
in fact - Will DID plagiarize my material - I don't really know what I
could do about it: at least as of yet. At the time of Will's actual
"crime" (which he and the magazine had to apologize for) I consulted
several old college friends of mine who happened to be lawyers. Tom Bishop
and Will didn't believe me of course, but that's because their only old
school friends are working at gas stations now. But if you attend college,
and know how to make friends, and can carry on intelligent conversations,
it actually isn't unbelievable. So - I have talked to them again, and
while they both agree that Will's statements are definitely libelous, I
really don't want to get into this shit again. It would be nice if Will
could grow a pair and simply admit the obvious - that he's lying about any
plagiarism and - in fact - was only using the lie to distract people from
the fact that he is a talentless hack and bereft of an imagination, and
incapable of creating poetry...but the fact is he's a cowardly mental
dwarf, and can't do it. My lawyer friends have promised to monitor these
conversations, to collect and print the pertinent threads, etc. So - we'll
see. At the moment, I find Will to be so far below my attention level
(he's an amusement like a dancing monkey with a bellhop's hat) that doing
something about him strikes me as pointless. My friends might form a
different opinion.
dmh
That's probably the healthiest attitude when it comes to Dockery. He's so