
4 The Beer Can Theory of Creativity
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genuine structure in the world of human experience that may manifest in sev-
eral or perhaps all domains.
Nureyev revealed an at least intuitive grasp of this when, further on in the in-
terview discussed near the beginning of this section, he was asked, "Has going
from [dance to acting] given you any insight into the previous kind of perfor-
mance styles, and into the different shades of creativity"? He responded: "If you
know one subject very well, then you have the key to every other subject." If this
is true, it doesn't seem particularly fair. ...