evergreen From On Writing Ideas can travel through time and space Ideas can travel through time and space without being uttered out loud. The process of telepathy requires two places: A sending place , a transmission place — where the writer sends ideas, such as a desk A receiving place — where the reader receives the ideas/imagery such as a couch, a comfortable chair, in bed The connection between Creativity is combinatorial and writing is that both compress experience into transmittable form. The most important things are the hardest to say. — see Emergence