
The Idiot Savant within us is a curious facet of our personalities
It is one-half brilliant, the other half is flawed or, at best, unfinished
Like nesting dolls, you could have a veneer of sophistication several layers deep
And a really rough-hewn center of "Idunnoknownothin'" barely kneaded putty
Or, vice versa
It could be a harlequin patterned mosaic of smart and dumb
You step on a different tile every time you encounter it
You might get the lion and the lamb
Masquerading as an eight-legged gene-edited oddity from the future
Or a mythic beast long extinct from the very distant past
You could very well be interacting with a spin-top spinning at top speed
Atop the carapace of a slow-moving terrapin
Who knows what the Idiot-Savant really started out as
Perhaps a gentle obedient child, or the infamously colicky baby
Our nervous systems can only handle so much
Don't let first impressions fool you
Embrace your inner Idiot-Savant and let it go out and say hello to the world
The world will adjust
- SDG
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/42322 |
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