But she hasn't. This is partly because of the volume of art already produced, and hence the difficulty of being entirely fresh, and partly because electronic storage and reproduction mean that modern artists have access to more works of the past than any generation of creative talent before them. In Havana, although in this case the inspiration is affectionate and oblique. The clinching argument in this matter is that it can be argued that parody is a natural human instinct. Whereas it is not the case that we all have the ability to write, sing, compose, act or invent, imitation is genuinely native to us.
Children learn to speak through parody.
By adolescence, if not before, that language is often being employed in comic exaggeration. A small section of the bookshop should always be open to, say, Joanna Bridge's Diary or Colonel Caperelli's Ukelele or, indeed, The Wind Done Gone. The rules for artistic parody seem simple. There should be no serious risk of a consumer believing that they are getting the original and therefore income being directed to the wrong person. The Wind Done Gone clearly passes on both these counts and so there should be no burning of books at Atlanta.