Opinion: The thunderbolts we never saw coming
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Another horrific mass shooting in the United States. The downfall of Boris Johnson in the UK. The sudden assassination of Shinzo Abe in Japan. Jane Carr and CNN Opinion contributors look back at week filled with thunderbolts we never saw coming.
Shelley is far from alone in her co-location of creativity with chaos. James Baldwin rendered this tension in prescient terms in his 1962 essay, "The Creative Process": "A society must assume that it is stable," wrote Baldwin, "but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven."
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