From a flat jungle plane
Rises a gigantic rock
A great king built a fortress
To guard the dark nights stars
Written by: RJX
Friday, October 27, 2017
If you make a friend of Time
If you make a friend of Time
It wouldn't matter if you have no dime
For waves that break in the mangrove beach
Will pull your ship from that sinking reef
If the light house is far
And the mist blocks the north star
Follow the terns to the left
Or north or south whichever is best
An oyster that pricks your feet
Could have a pearl in some distant beach
A raft that is blown to sea
Will reach the Island of Serendib
Written by: RJX
It wouldn't matter if you have no dime
For waves that break in the mangrove beach
Will pull your ship from that sinking reef
If the light house is far
And the mist blocks the north star
Follow the terns to the left
Or north or south whichever is best
An oyster that pricks your feet
Could have a pearl in some distant beach
A raft that is blown to sea
Will reach the Island of Serendib
Written by: RJX
Saturday, October 21, 2017
The scientist
My grandfather had once been very rich due to his great
inventions. He had the mind for big ideas. The scientific projects during the
first half of his life made him a billionaire, but the featherbrained projects
in the second half of his life left him in abject poverty. He had squandered
his wealth, through charity and unwise scientific projects. He had spent
millions of dollars in a project he carried out to duplicate a leaf and thereby
end world poverty. It came to nothing.
Then came his impractical idea of
solving the energy crisis by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using a
catalyst. In the laboratory it worked but when he implemented it in large scale
it ran into endless problems, it wasn’t cost effective and had to be abandoned.
Undaunted well maybe mildly daunted he started the endeavor to use the motion
of the waves to generate electricity in a large scale, thereby providing the
whole country and then the whole world with electricity, and the solving great
environmental problems like global warming and pollution. In the end it became
a sad joke.
Some people believe that somewhere in his late forties he suffered
brain damage due to the toxic effects of some of the chemicals he used during
his experiments, namely mercury. There are times I believe that this might be
true, for how could you otherwise explain one of his later projects. He firmly
believed that the Sigiriya Rock Fortress was really a fallen meteorite and it
had elements and compounds that have never been found on earth. He concluded
that by using these chemicals he could create a chain reaction that would among
other things - create rain at will, reverse global warming, make gold, reverse
ozone layer depletion, create a totally indestructible metal. By the time this
project was over everyone called him a fool, and he had lost all his money and fallen
into debt.
Written by: RJX
Written by: RJX
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