The Mind's Best WorkOver the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote "Kubla Khan" in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his "Raven" was worked out "with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." |
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... kind of searching we do when we systematically pick lint off a sweater . In short , too often we have missed the connections between the marvelous and the mun- dane . For this task , I will need the help of a number of ideas and ex ...
... kind of searching we do when we systematically pick lint off a sweater . In short , too often we have missed the connections between the marvelous and the mun- dane . For this task , I will need the help of a number of ideas and ex ...
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... kind of pro- duct or outcome must be involved in creating . " To create " is a transitive verb . It is the fundamental nature of the concept that creating involves creating something , and to speak of creating when there is nothing ...
... kind of pro- duct or outcome must be involved in creating . " To create " is a transitive verb . It is the fundamental nature of the concept that creating involves creating something , and to speak of creating when there is nothing ...
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... . Their main function is something else entirely : they are part of the argument . Many of the points made in the following pages are most meaningful , best appreciated , and best considered critically , given some kind A PARABLE 7.
... . Their main function is something else entirely : they are part of the argument . Many of the points made in the following pages are most meaningful , best appreciated , and best considered critically , given some kind A PARABLE 7.
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D. N. Perkins. appreciated , and best considered critically , given some kind of direct personal experience of the phenomena . Finally , there are my drawings . They appear mostly for fun , paper idols honoring some good and bad ideas ...
D. N. Perkins. appreciated , and best considered critically , given some kind of direct personal experience of the phenomena . Finally , there are my drawings . They appear mostly for fun , paper idols honoring some good and bad ideas ...
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