You always find me when I least expect you

It happened to Dewey while riding a horse,
It often happens on journeys of course of course.
To Heisenberg at midnight in the park,
He found light where it was quite quite dark.

To Kekule it came to him in a dream,
That showed him the make-up of Benzene.
While Einstein, bored in the patent offices,
Plucked relativity from inside his cortices.

Philo Farnsworth saw in plough-made incisions
A way to transmit pictures for electronic vision.
And Darwin, from reading Malthus on population,
Found his way, following years of notation.

Loaded with information as clouds with rain,
Made discoveries formulate in their brains.
But only when at rest, only when unforced,
Were these thoughts from soup divorced.

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Note: Written following a lecture on Information and Creativity (where I got most of these examples - the rest came from this article) and with this song mind a bit too.

Tweet Repeat 81

His constant attempts to schmooze made me want to wooze; he could never amuse even a room full of fools.

Now that I’m sere

Now that I’m sere,

Now that I’m here, Dried up, old, Sheltered from the cold In my favourite armchair Under blanket of rough hair. Now I can see it all, I can see a fool In the mirror Who makes me shiver As I look back and remember That fateful December When I let everything go, I just didn’t know That’d be it, Last chance lost in a fit Of decisions too rash, That changed my life in a flash. So Now that I’m here, Now that I’m sere, I can reflect, Continue to regret One mistaken decision That was to be to my life A fatal incision.

Entropy

Oh! to be a part of entropy,
Just a small bit of energy-
In a state where I never can die!

To be passed straight on
From one state to a new-
Always the ability to view!

To have always been,
And to always be-
To have seen all of history!


Oh! to live in this way,
To exist every day,
No longer a simple deduction.

Oh, to understand all,
Not to live behind walls
Like in this simple construction.


And yet and yet,
To the future I’ll beget
A gift to never forget.

After my mourning day,
Whether I am burned or decay,
My energy will never go away!

My parts always have been,
My parts always will be
Only solidified for the time being.