It is in the very nature of creativity, in its prodigious complexity and richness, that it will accommodate paradoxes and ambiguities. But this, it seems, will always elude and pose a problem for the uncreative, literal mind (which I hasten to add is not the same as the literary mind, nor even the merely literate mind).- Chinua Achebe, Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
Friday 5 November 2010
Literal/literate/literary
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