Comments on: A Beat Take on Blake http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/a-beat-take-on-blake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-beat-take-on-blake English 738T, Spring 2015 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 04:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Philip Stewart http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/a-beat-take-on-blake/#comment-303 Philip Stewart Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:26:01 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=542#comment-303 I saw the best minds of my generation lured away to be "quants!" rational, gorging, suited-up mascots Gridlocked in the Tysons Corner Streets at five, fielding a headhunter's pitch, Angelheaded hackers, burning for the heavenly siphon to the earthly dynamo of money, quantum mechanics And the whole economy up on blocks to be readied for the drag strip, finally empirical, A chance to see something real go into the Wall Street Financial Accelerator... *Hrm.* Sorry. (coughs) I saw the best minds of my generation lured away to be “quants!” rational, gorging, suited-up mascots
Gridlocked in the Tysons Corner Streets at five, fielding a headhunter’s pitch,
Angelheaded hackers, burning for the heavenly siphon to the earthly dynamo of money, quantum mechanics
And the whole economy up on blocks to be readied for the drag strip, finally empirical,
A chance to see something real go into the Wall Street Financial Accelerator…

*Hrm.* Sorry. (coughs)

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