Never Mind it was Diagnosed

However, if you want a real analysis of the problem of originality - you should turn to the World as a Labyrinth.

A bit unnecessarily difficult to plow through it, but still a very worthwhile read.

This being the foundation idea: each artistic epoch ends in mannirism. Then, the most original guys surface, creating something new. However, they all invariably fall into recognizable psychological types. To make it completely vulgar: how can they be original if they are all the same?

So, this is the Romantic cult of the genius vs Twain's sentence that men, just like rats, merely observe and combine.

Sometimes it indeed seems to me it all revolves round some central paradox. And to get really mystical and funny: I think I do experience deja vu from time to time. Maybe I should get a book on it.