Deepest Secrets Confessed

Dear Uncle Wriggley:

I submit a lot of stuff to a magazine for publication but they never say anything back. I have tried hard to be topical, original, and urbane. This gets tough. Last month I hit a dry patch and lifted an amusing thing from http://www.monkey.org/jape/ almost verbatim and without attribution. I kind of feel bad, but I think I am maybe better at selecting great works instead of creating them. Does this mean I must renounce my Artistic Bent for that of the connoisseur, the dilettante, the arbiter of fashion? I am confused. Do you give advice or just collect secrets?

(name & address witheld on the request of the writer)

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