(November 22, 2016 at 2:33 pm)Shell B Wrote: I really think authors ought to be able to decide their own legacy. If mom and dad's bakery can go to little Timmy, why shouldn't I be able to leave my novels to my family? Of course, there has to be an expiration at some point, I guess.
Just change your name to Walt Disney.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould