i like to read the newspaper in the morning. We get the Washington Post. Yesterday I was reading the Style section and I came across the following excerpt from an article about magazines:
Did Edison Light Up?
Thomas Alva Edison in the genius who gave us the light bulb and the phonograph. Who knew he also wrote at least one surrealistic prose poem?
That poem appears in Volume 6 of "The Papers of Thomas A. Edison", soon to be published by John Hopkins University Press, and it was reprinted in the August issue of Harper's. Because of its historical and literary significance, we thought we'd reprint it, too:
"A Bowery angel smoking a palm tree stubbed his toe on a comet, and pimplees came out of his toe nail as big as mountains. he swore so much that God made eight new planets out of the conversation & peopled and fauna'd & flora'd them eccentrically. The almighty has a vein of humor. He made these planets & peopled them to give amusements to beings on the rest of the celestial plantation. the men were 800 miles long & 1/4 inch thick. They slept on telegraph poles, and animals with bodies each as big a saucer lived on these long men by catching them by the feet and sucking them in like macaroni"
Whew!
"The circumstances surrounding the creation of this document are entirely unknown," the book's editors noted.
It makes you wonder: Is it possible that Edison also invented the bong?
DISCUSS!
