neale walsch

The higher up the intellectual ladder you go, the more articulate the weaseling
Neale Donald Walsch is way high-up, the author of a series of best-selling books, Conversations With God. He admits that he cribbed a cute little essay that came to him 10 yrs ago and began using it as his own, but when he put it online in December, the real author found it. It's so startling a story that if it had actually happened to you, you'd remember it vividly forever. But it never happened to Walsch; it happened to the original writer. Busted. "I am truly mystified and taken aback by this," he said. "I have told the story verbally so many times over the years that I had it memorized–and then, somewhere along the way, internalized it as my own experience." Yeah, that's the ticket . . internalized it. New York Times