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Most people are only half-listening (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The meaning doesn't matter
If it's only idle chatter
Of a transcendental kind -
And everyone will say
As you walk your mystic way,
"If this young man expresses himself
In terms too deep for me
Then what a very singularly deep young man
This deep young man must be!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What does it reference?

[–] unreasonabro 3 points 5 months ago

breh you're supposed to be a writer, not a guy offering lotion to someone in a hole!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Gilbert and Sullivan. "Patience; or Bunthorne's Bride"

It's a comic opera / musical