Friday, 5 November 2010

Literal/literate/literary

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

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