Poem [Ensign]

Fifth Philosopher's Song
A million million spermatozoa All of them alive;
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to beShakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne--
But the One was Me.

Shame to have ousted your betters thus,
Taking ark while the others remained outside!
Better for all of us, froward Homunculus,
If you'd quietly died!

’Aldous Huxley (1920)

Word [Ensign]

scintillating
adj 1: brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue" 2: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: bubbling, effervescent, sparkling, sparkly] 3: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, sparkling(a), sparkly]