When old ideas fail, the next best at hand is good enough. Let's hope that. In art the best is good enough. When ideas fail, the next best is to be good and careful without knowing how. Lord Byron is only great as a poet.
All guilt is punished on earth.
Existential guilt is to be punished only roughly by living along. The spirit that always denies. When ideas fail, let a deep-sounding word comes in to save the situation. FOR MOST PART we use 'initial words', ie a few letters to denote book references. And we put such markers in square brackets.