Creativity on steroids (or vodka)

Once in a while I give my students examples of creativity - mostly of creative thinking. This is something you cannot really learn in any course - how to see in a flash surprising links between things which are seemingly disconnected, even on different existential plains. I was listening a while ago to an old song ("My vrashchaem zemliu") by Vladimir Vysotsky, a Soviet bard who died young in the early 1980s. He sings about Soviet soldiers who were able to set the Earth in proper motion with their boots, after it had started rotating in the wrong direction and the sun had almost set to the east. And he describes a battalion commander who leads the push back leaning away from the Ural - with his foot set against the mountain. Unbelievably striking imagery! Too bad it doesn't translate into English.