Memory and perspective..... example- you and I go to see the same movie on the same day at the same time.... we are "moved" to write about what we saw that day, only 30+ years later.... you remember the date exactly, but i wrote a different day close to the right date as dates are less important to my "view" of what we saw.... I remember all of the minor details about the movie and write those, while you simply stated the major events of the movie and left out the minor details that are less important to your "view" of what we both saw......
On the surface it may appear to be two seperate stories that have similarities.... but they are the stories of the same event that were written by different writters, long after the event took place...... we all see through our own eyes- I am not you and you are not me, we may see the same thing differently and remember differently, even if we are moved to write for the same reason.......
The movie we were "moved" to write about, would read very differently, if we told or asked others to write the story for us after verbaly exchanging the information with them about the events.............. even more so if the language had to be translated at the same time.
Lillith
On a personal note- great topic/thread/question SA, you really get me thinking, thank you
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