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An interesting \/ entertaining review of the multiple claims of authorship<\/a> for the “Footprints in the Sand<\/a>” poem (commonly attributed “Author Unknown”).<\/p>\n

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Although nearly all of these authors claim they wrote the poem in longhand, dictated by God, the controversy didn\u2019t surface until everyone began putting their versions online. There are hundreds of \u201cFootprints\u201d-inspired Web sites. One has a soundtrack of waves lapping against the shore; another features lines of the poem jiggling to the beat of Christmas songs. In Andrew Keen\u2019s 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur<\/i>, he writes that the Internet has induced a state of communal amnesia; we\u2019ve lost \u201cour memory for things learnt, read, experienced, or heard.\u201d Perhaps the “Footprints” writers are living a version of this peculiar situation. There’s not only an abundance of amateur authors, but they’ve all written the exact same thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s a lot of footprints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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