slight peccadillo

More chinar concepts:

“Druskin invented the chinar term a certain equilibrium with a slight peccadillo in 1933. Its meaning is deliberately vague, but the peccadillo is, as it were, departure from dead symmetry by either aleatory or voluntary error that constitutes creation in both the cosmological and the artistic senses of the word.”

• The English words are very clunky, I wonder if the Russian are any better. Nevertheless, I find myself repeating this phrase to myself.
• I am in love with the idea that creativity comes from being just slightly off balance.
• I am fed up with the idea that achieving “balance” in life is a good thing. What is balance?
• I know what equilibrium is, it’s the ability to stand up.
• I love the idea that creativity comes from error.

“Messengers. Another important chinar concept, referring to creatures from world A whose presence may be felt, but not ascertained, in world B.”