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Sweating Inspiration

as I am here this warm evening pressing the microphone button on my smart phone John Quincy Adams sits beside me at his congressional desk while Thomas Edison is sitting nearby at a bench in Menlo Park and Archimedes is lounging down the hall in his bath none of them are visibly perturbed, nor exhibit obvious genius as they are creating the finer points of civilization for the greater good while all I can do is speak at my phone which flashes lines of ads about free online games and sites of single Asian women as I sweat to create it's enough to consider going to a libation establishment and saying "hey barkeep, give me a wallbanger and an inspiration with a twist" © Goode Guy 2012-05-19 Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

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