[backtoyoujim]

so imagine from playing a guitar and you get famous and people ask you "who were your influences ?"

and i assumed that they mean "when you were more horrible at the guitar than you are now whose songs did you learn to play on your guitar ?"

and that can be the same with writing as a trick one can write out an other author's work often until there is actual influence on vocabulary and style.

Then you take that and make up new stuff using the that new musical or lyrical style or collective style.

until someone shows up and does something so outside of the paradigm and yet still sublime that a new source of derivation exists.

wash. rinse. wipe hands on pants.