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2.8.2012
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Have you heard about the muse? She's just a myth, okay? The muse doesn't appear in dreams, or suggest colors, or whisper words in your ear to write down frantically, slipping you beginning lines of poems stolen from the gods, brilliant insights, gestalts, revelations, or genius ideas. The muse is not a being that comes to inspire or exhort you to cut something up or paint something big that really has no business being in the world. No such spirit exists independently, appearing on her whims but never when you call. In fact, you never see a muse at all. I think overly active imagination accounts for most muse encounters and the wind probably covers the rest. I don't believe in her no matter how many times she saves my ass with last minute ideas that totally pull work together. I would have thought of those things anyway, in fact, I'm sure I did.
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