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In a 1946 essay called “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell railed against the decline of clear prose, writing: “The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not….
“There are two kinds of geniuses: the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘magicians’. An ordinary genius is a person whom you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they’ve done,…
Do you have a creative process? We glamorize creativity. We imagine that somebody is sleeping and wakes up and says, “Eureka!” Most of the time, creative solutions are a product of time on task. It’s a lot of people spending a lot of time puzzling and puzzling and puzzling together. …
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Alan Rabinowitz www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive One of my favorite Moth stories is Alan Rabinowitz’s “Man and Beast” (below). Like The King’s Speech, it’s the story of a man struggling to find…