Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The "Person from Porlock"

My daughter reminded me today of this story I heard years ago about creativity interrupted. It has even coined an expression. 
The author Samuel Taylor Coleridge had a (perhaps drug-augmented) moment of inspiration, but was interrupted by a visitor, and he could never regain the inspiration for the poem.  It has even led to the expression, apparently, of "the person from Porlock" - which means "unwanted intruders who disrupt inspired creativity." 



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