ABSTRACT
Literature is a pervasive domain,2 one strand of which is semantic logic.3 I propose that literary creativity contains super-condensed counter-intuitive rationality.4 This interpolation of literary creativity into semantic logic is of course an intended challenge to our senses of relevance and relation. To get to the heart of some of the issues, we have to consider what it is to be a creative language. This discussion encompasses contemporary as well as ancient literature, and the status of the identity of distinctions that we employ to map literature. Clearly such classifying expressions as modernism or modernité5 regress to major questions external to literature about the relations of history to literature. Within these relations are other patterns that are shared between distinct phenomena, such as features of rationality and generalisations.6
