Going in to work day in day out for 40 years, copying out letters and accounts with no prospect of promotion unless somebody ahead of them died".
Suspecting that one of Wilson's older sisters had written the paper, he asked, "Can you prove to me that you wrote this?" Wilson remembers saying, "Hey, unless you call everybody in here and have all the people prove they wrote them, even the ones that went and copied out of the encyclopedia word for word, I don't feel I should have to prove anything".
The truth is that the two types of greatness are interdependent: he had to nurture his tremendous natural talent by, for example, copying out the work of others.
Life must have been pretty boring for the person copying out line after line in the pre-printing-press world.
The vocal line was copied out for him and he sang the number in the broadcast.
Malcolm X, in his autobiography, described how reading and even copying out the dictionary was transformative for him, opening him to words and worlds.
When Mr. Naipaul's first novel, "The Mystic Masseur," was published in 1957, Mr. French notes, in typically vivid prose: "Like a tiger cub bringing home his first kill, he copied out extracts for his mother from the reviews".
Ask your friends to summarize their 50 assigned pages (or however many it works out to be) and take good notes on the section, then copy out the notes for everyone in the group.
Wilbur found Jacobs's report so troubling that she copied out the most disturbing parts for Barnes to read herself.
The VAF for the not confirmed SNV (13%) is in the range for 1 deviating copy out of 6 (16.67%) indicating the difficulty to distinguish between variations of this type and false positives of the applied method.
