17 December 2009 - geode

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How Creativity Really Works, Or, Genius and Madness

A poison capsule should be like a geode; you don’t realize how beautiful it is until you crack it open. Hmm, there’s nothing geodesic about a geode, is there? But is there anything psychedelic about—what’s a psychode? Maybe I should invent it. Oh hell no, forty thousand Google hits! That’s ugly, it’s time to kill myself!

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