Yeah-- going to sleep or waking up are other times when things seems to flow, but it's hard to make the effort to get it on paper, and later-- it's like Coleridge and Kubla Khan. Any interruption or failure to write down what the muse is giving you, and you lose it forever.
(Though I suspect, in Sam's case, he passed out from Opium overindulgence and slept through the rest of the poem. Man from Porlock, indeed.)
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Date: 2008-03-27 11:27 pm (UTC)(Though I suspect, in Sam's case, he passed out from Opium overindulgence and slept through the rest of the poem. Man from Porlock, indeed.)