Just to show you that these things can have another spin:

As a senior in college, I took a course on European Literature with a
wonderful teacher, who I grew increasingly fond of. I wrote a final paper on
THOMAS MANN: THE ARTIST AS FAILURE, in which inter alia I drew analogies
between Mann's more intriguing heros and the Michaelangelo David. The
teacher, who until that time had been quite warmly disposed to me, gave me a
crushing failing grade and said that I had plagiarized -- not citing any
source, only implying that I couldn't have written the paper on my own.

I was devastated, went to the man with tears in my eyes, and told him every
word had been mine. He believed me, promised to reread the paper, apologized
in his final grading for his "barracks room mentality" -- I still remember
the words. As a poignant conclusion, I wrote a short story for him about a
recent complex evening I had spent with a friend in post romantic despair,
and his critique of this -- not required in the course -- was exceptionally
helpful to my subsequent writing.

It is therefore conceivable that this student did not plagiarize a line; I
will have to admit to my own barracks room mentality, after all of the above,
and say that I have run across some of these words before, but -- as the song
goes -- can't remember where or when.  Best  hrgreenberg md endit

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