At 11:33 AM 8/15/2002 -0700, Nytemuse wrote: >I totally agree...I always thought that creativity was a collaboration of >the conscious and...well, some other part. Maybe the subconscious, maybe >something else. But the more I consciously know about a topic or audience >etc, the more creative an idea I can come up with. But I don't think it's >just a conscious mind thing. In _Literature and Revolution_ Trotsky refers to inspiration as, "The creative unity of the conscious and the unconscious." I've always liked that.