15 May 2010 - reinvent it

clue:

I looked up a favorite 1991 Daily Whale line (“brevity is the soul of wit, but levity is the whole of it”) and found it had been stolen or reinvented a few times since then. It’s irritating either way!

I keep a file called “reject”, which has dozens of sayings that I wanted to use in the Daily Whale but found I had only reinvented. A few of them are excellent and took hard work to write! I probably have many other reinventions that I never noticed... that’s hard work too.