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Quoting "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>:
> Tenureclocky
>
> by Dany Adams
> Department of Biological Sciences
> Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
> Drawing by Lois Malone
>
> (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)
>
> http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i4/tenureclocky.html
>
>
>
> "Sheıs Brilliant!" so the Ivy grove
> Did hire the nimble-minded maid.
> All flimsy were her bookish robes
> Her bona fides displayed.
>
> "Beware the Tenureclock, young one,
> Donıt pause at night or flaws theyıll catch.
> Be sure you publish blurbs, and shun
> The populous intro class!"
>
> She took an undergrad in hand.
> Long time the grant of dough she sought.
> And tested she her theory.
> And swelled a file. And taught.
>
> And as she published what she could,
> The Tenureclock, with eyes of flame,
> Came sniffing round for moldy wood
> And prospecting for fame.
>
> "No clue whatıs due ? Youıre never through!"
> The maidıs keyboard went click and clack.
> She felt half dead, but pushed ahead
> Around the tenure track.
>
> And did she tame the Tenureclock ?
> Overcome all academic strife ?
> Sheıs taken her MacArthur grant
> And gone to get a life.
>
> "Sheıs Brilliant!" so the Ivy grove
> Did hire the nimble-minded maid.
> All flimsy were her bookish robes
> Her bona fides displayed.
>
> İ Copyright 2001 Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
No offense Wade, but as a poetry-illiterate *pur sang*,
especially when it comes to foreign ones, my everlasting
frustration in trying to comprehend poetry ceased upon
learning the next quotation:
``In science one tries to tell people,
in such a way as to be understood by everyone,
something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.''
Paul A. M. Dirac, `godfather'
of quantum mechanics.
I liked this source of consolation so much that I placed
it on one of the first pages of my PhD thesis.
Cheers,
Philip.
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