  What Heidegger finally wants to suggest, then, is not just that the nothing emerges from the ordinary (that the nothing makes itself visible in Van Gogh’s painting of an ordinary pair of shoes) but also the reverse, that what we now think of as “ordinary” first originated out of the “nothing,” through the essential struggle between earth and world. For, in Heidegger’s view, initially extraordinary creations, once brought into being, eventually become stabilized in intelligibility and so perceived as merely “ordinary” (in much the same way that what begins as a revealing poetic insight is eventually routinized into a worn-out  cliché).[75] As he thus puts it: