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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... solutions . Gwen Frankfeldt matched form to subject matter by her inventiveness with the design of the book . Let me express appreciation to the several agencies that have supported my research over the past decade : The National Insti ...
... solutions . Gwen Frankfeldt matched form to subject matter by her inventiveness with the design of the book . Let me express appreciation to the several agencies that have supported my research over the past decade : The National Insti ...
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... solution to the mystery of Easter Island had been known for eleven years . The discoverer was the Norwegian student of Pacific cultures , Thor Heyerdahl , who published a popular account of his inquiries at Easter Island under the title ...
... solution to the mystery of Easter Island had been known for eleven years . The discoverer was the Norwegian student of Pacific cultures , Thor Heyerdahl , who published a popular account of his inquiries at Easter Island under the title ...
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... solution but the process of trying to reach it . These personal ex- periments are not meant for amusement , although most of them are fun . Neither are they presented as exercises , although I often have assigned them as exercises in ...
... solution but the process of trying to reach it . These personal ex- periments are not meant for amusement , although most of them are fun . Neither are they presented as exercises , although I often have assigned them as exercises in ...
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