“My New Idea” / Memorable Fancies #4129

[“Everything has been said, and we have only to draw from the depths of this reservoir the already deposited phrase.” – Maël Renouard]

       Given the discourse of the world over many centuries, anything I write has already been written, in one language or another. I’m now writing just this, thinking it a new idea. But was it actually from that long-forgotten librettist whose work I had to read but didn’t like, or that major I tuned to a melancholy minor, then abandoned like so many foot/notes?