Oh come on. Piet Hein's verses are better than doggerel! As he writes:
Knowing what thour knowest not
Is, in a sense, omniscience.
You badly underestimate and disrespect doggerel, which can be great. Madam, I am proud to consider myself a doggerelian.
Apparently Chaucer was also a fan. I recall one of his Canterbury Tales was written in doggerel which he was asked to change by an irritated listener.
Okay then!
Me, too.
My favorite of hisтАФhe called them тАЬGrooksтАЭтАФis: The universe may Be as great as they say But it wouldnтАЩt be missed If it didnтАЩt exist.
"Nature, it seems, is the popular name / For milliards and milliards and milliards / Of particles playing their infinite game / Of billiards, and billiards, and billiards.
"As Pastor X gets out of bed / He puts a neat disguise on. / That halo 'round his priestly head / Is really his horizon."
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Oh come on. Piet Hein's verses are better than doggerel! As he writes:
Knowing what thour knowest not
Is, in a sense, omniscience.
You badly underestimate and disrespect doggerel, which can be great. Madam, I am proud to consider myself a doggerelian.
Apparently Chaucer was also a fan. I recall one of his Canterbury Tales was written in doggerel which he was asked to change by an irritated listener.
Okay then!
Me, too.
My favorite of hisтАФhe called them тАЬGrooksтАЭтАФis: The universe may Be as great as they say But it wouldnтАЩt be missed If it didnтАЩt exist.
"Nature, it seems, is the popular name / For milliards and milliards and milliards / Of particles playing their infinite game / Of billiards, and billiards, and billiards.
"As Pastor X gets out of bed / He puts a neat disguise on. / That halo 'round his priestly head / Is really his horizon."