song of infinities
Aug. 6th, 2019 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
betteroffbadThere once was a mathematician who lectured in part
on infinities and every single lecture without fail
some guy in the audience stood up and was like what about about the human heart
which made the mathematician want to put his head in a pail
for minutes on end for decades he tried to explain
all the ways in which the human heart is necessarily finite
until he was overcome by annoyance so strong it produced physical pain
and decided he had been wasting his time in hindsight
there's a moral to this story if morals are what you're looking for
that moral is don't stress out over a metaphor
on infinities and every single lecture without fail
some guy in the audience stood up and was like what about about the human heart
which made the mathematician want to put his head in a pail
for minutes on end for decades he tried to explain
all the ways in which the human heart is necessarily finite
until he was overcome by annoyance so strong it produced physical pain
and decided he had been wasting his time in hindsight
there's a moral to this story if morals are what you're looking for
that moral is don't stress out over a metaphor
