"Inflation Is Something Abnormal And It Is Not Necessarily A Part Of The Creative Process, Though Unfortunately

"Inflation is something abnormal and it is not necessarily a part of the creative process, though unfortunately it happens of course to be connected with it very often. But a creative artist, for instance, can create without imagining himself to be a creator. He can create just because it is his damned duty to do so, or because he cannot help doing it. That is, a creative person without self-consciousness. As soon as self­ consciousness comes in, there is inflation: you imagine that you are the creator and then you are God, because you feel, of course, like ten thousand dollars if you have time to think of it. If you have time, you have already split off from the creative process; you look at yourself and say: "Hell, what a fellow! Isn't he grand?" And then you are in for it, you are already living in your biography, you see it printed: In the year so and so, on such a day, he had such and such an inspiration. Then you have spoiled your creative process, but you have a most healthy inflation."

Excerpt from Nietzsche’s Zarathustra notes of the seminar given in 1934-1939.

The first oyster.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“A cup of coffee, a cigarette and my dreams can substitute quite well for the universe and its stars, for work, love, and even beauty and glory. I need virtually no stimulants. I have opium enough in my soul.”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

i bet tumbling down a cliff feels like a mitski song

Perhaps a child failed by their parents has their own failure ordained.

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