And interesting quote from an interesting person:

"Everything must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded, it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself, In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the immagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it."

From the author of Frankenstein, Mary W. Shelley, London, October 15, 1831.....her point of view is not to be taken lightly, she communed with two of the greatest poets of her century, Shelly and Byron.