Some Words

I read quite a bit about Grigori Perelman this summer, and all the articles I read gave me an idea for a story, which I wrote. I was quite pleased with the result, and was starting to polish it before sending it out. There’s just one problem though. The main character takes a picture of himself every morning, which, while not wholly original, was not, I thought, totally cliche.

Little did I know, and how did I miss this, that there was a guy named Noah who had taken his picture every day for six years. He then made a video, which he put on youtube. And now I have to decide if he didn’t trump my story with his five minute video. He and I both use the idea of these pictures very differently, but I can’t help but feel that the story would forever be in the shadow of that video.