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the art of hiding your sources well enough to take the credit
means the quality of being new, fresh, or inventive — of producing something not copied or derived from anything that came before.
from From Latin 'originalis,' meaning 'from the beginning,' built on 'origo' (origin, source) — itself tied to 'oriri,' to rise or be born, the same root that gives us the rising sun in 'orient.' English took up 'original' through Old French, and by the 18th century had spun off 'originality' to name the prized knack for starting something fresh rather than rising from someone else's work.
- old roots
- Latin originalis means simply where something begins
- creative myth
- every idea remixes things that came before
- law line
- copyright protects expression, never the underlying idea
- brain bias
- unconsciously recalling old ideas as new is real
- art era
- Romantics first prized originality over skilled imitation