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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... sometimes to budge just a little . Meanwhile the mayor was busy placing small stones under the edges of the fallen statue as his helpers heaved . Then the small stones were replaced with slightly larger stones . The process of levering ...
... sometimes to budge just a little . Meanwhile the mayor was busy placing small stones under the edges of the fallen statue as his helpers heaved . Then the small stones were replaced with slightly larger stones . The process of levering ...
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... sometimes a direct contradiction of the original proposition and sometimes a qualification of it . The text of the sections is mostly a journey by way of evidence and argu- ment from the original to the revised proposition . This device ...
... sometimes a direct contradiction of the original proposition and sometimes a qualification of it . The text of the sections is mostly a journey by way of evidence and argu- ment from the original to the revised proposition . This device ...
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