Chance encounters in wartime Zurich -- Approaches to creativity -- Sigmund Freud : alone with the world -- Albert Einstein : the perennial child -- Pablo Picasso : prodigiousness and beyond -- Igor Stravinsky : the poetics and politics of music -- T. S. Eliot : the marginal master -- Martha Graham : discovering the dance of America -- Mahatma Gandhi : a hold upon others -- Creativity across the domains -- Epilogue : the modern era and beyond.