Ode to my Advisor

The word brilliance is an subjective term, one should agree. Its like the "two-lines" theory, one line looks small in the presence of a bigger line... which in itself is an infinite process.
I am easily overwhelmed at the sheer breadth of diverse topics in a library, or the infinite depth a narrow-topic traverses.
Clearly Evolution through its 4 Billion-year growth has so much to offer.

There are very few people who can talk about many things, it feels like they know everything under the sun. One such soul is My Advisor.

The sheer diverse things he can handle and talk about reminds me of "The Village School Master" by Oliver Goldsmith.

"Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault.
The village all declar'd how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too:
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage,
And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.
In arguing too, the person own'd his skill,
For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thund'ring sound
Amazed the gazing rustics rang'd around;
And still they gaz'd and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew."


the end.