Imitation

No idea is new (public domain pictures)

Everyone and everything is an imitation of what once was. There is no new thing under the sun. I find myself continually revisiting this idea from year to year, wondering who I imitate and what imitated things I interact with every day. In chapter two, “the Loss of The Creature,” of Walker Percy’s novel, The Message int he Bottle, I found that it wasn’t only talking about the cliches we have now or that are “being formed” but rather that the text was making light of how…