> Or it's a "rip off" of Michael Moorcocks description > of Chaos, or the other > writers who has treated chaos more or less the same. > But then Middle Earth is a "rip off" of the Norse > sagas. It's got elves and > dwarves in it, so of course it's a rip off. > > /Mrtn even if it was a rip off... nothing wrong with taking an idea and making it better. who invented the internal combustion engine? not Henry Ford the Organization is clearly a "rip off" of the mafia, but that doesn't bother me at all.