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Thread #71110 Message #1227909
Posted By: GUEST,Anne Croucher
17-Jul-04 - 08:02 PM
Thread Name: The Care And Feeding Of Muses
Subject: RE: The Care And Feeding Of Muses
I think there have to be musons - they are a variant of ideons, interstellar particals which ocassionaly encounter a brain and cause a flash of inspiration as some hitherto unknown idea springs into being.
The muson variation is a slower kind of operator, or maybe it has an orbital tendency so that for a short while the words and rhymes just seem to flow effortlessly, and then it is gone.
Some brains seem to attract musons and hold them, maybe keeping them in orbit for long periods, whilst others seem to be anti-muson. Unfortunately this does not stop them writing poetry.
Anne