A while back I posted a link to a kafuffle about a plagiarizing romance writer.

Since I did that, the kafuffle has grown exponetially. As I read this morning over on cleolinda's journal, apparently this writer-I'd-never-heard-of has plagiarized every source possible including--I am not making this up, I swear, and shalanna, you're going to love this--Hiawatha.

Yes, that Hiawatha!

By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.

That one.

I wonder how many readers had a moment of deja-vu in which they thought they were back in high school and didn't know why?

And okay, I know plagiarism is a scourge and all... but damn! This is some funny shit!