Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

"What’s so bad about repetition?” the compulsion asks. But, no, really, what’s so bad about repetition? Or perhaps it would be better rephrased as: What’s so good about innovation?"

Surprise is delightful to the mind. When the magician's prop fails to appear, When a trumpet's blast we fail to hear. When a poem's next rhyme simply falls flat. That. That is the delight of surprise.