"As you walk along, you find things...by the wayside or you buy a brochure written by a local historian which is in a tiny little museum somewhere...and in that you find odd details that lead you somewhere else, and so it's a form of unsystematic searching...So you then have a small amount of material and you accumulate things, ...and one thing takes you to another, and you make something out of these haphazardly assembled materials. And, as they have been assembled in this random fashion, you have to strain your imagination in order to create a connection between...things. If you look for things that are like the things that you have looked for before, then, obviously, they'll connect up. But they'll only connect up in an obvious sort of way, which actually isn't, in terms of writing something new, very productive. You have to take heterogeneous materials in order to get your mind to do something that it hasn't done before...So let's think more, ponder, wonder, meander, maunder...I'm addicted to the world's whisper"
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