Copying is creative
A theory brough up in Uncreative-Writing-Kenneth-Goldsmith, claiming that every act of copying transforms a text in some ways even if you try to be absolutely faithful to the original.As well as starting to Copy-to-Understand-the-Rules, by making individual choices when copying a text it becomes a creative act.
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