Example (1) constitutes no strong deviation from predicted literariness in literary texts from around 1900. It might be perceived as literary, but not particularly creative—this is very likely to be different in a non-literary context. Example (2), however, is more unpredictable even in the literary domain, yet meaningful, and can thus be perceived as creative. To operationalize creativity, we therefore need to disentangle literary style from originality across genres at points in time.