(Gee, Shambles, how did you know? Me and about 500 other people). As I implied, I was very reluctant to make some kind of a separation between generic creativity and something like a kind of genius. But you know it when you see it. It may have something to do with being creative according to existing categories, versus going somewhere altogether different. The difference may have something to do with the reaction: the first can be beautiful, exciting, compelling, wonderful: but the second has a bit of fear in it, something archaic, as if some boundary had been crossed that the gods had taken great care to hide -- a kind of vertigo. Beethoven's late String Quartets, Van Gogh's last paintings -- these are really scary. You just say, where are these people?

yours, Peter T.