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Here’s my iteration of the Laocoön – shall we say? – meme. Does it begin with the sculpture described by Pliny the Elder and literally unearthed in a Roman vineyard in 1506? Or with the second book of Virgil’s Aeneid? An eighteenth and nineteenth century touchstone for art/scholarship: I copy (do I copy?) Blake’s engraving – image and text – as he had copied (no, not copied) a London-bound copy of the Rome-based “original”. Poem > sculpture > painting > art theory > reproduction > iPad Pro Procreate remediation.