He understood geometry well, but algebraic topology was beyond him.

Who ever by consulting at thy shrine Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct To flye or follow what concern’d him most, And run not sooner to his fatal snare?

Meet me on Friday / Down, down, down in blue city / Got no address / Just a telephone number / Phone me tonight / And maybe we can talk dirty

This exquisite irrecognition of any law antecedent to the oral or declaratory , struck so irresistibly upon the fancy of all who heard it