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Fragments Of Olympian Gossip
"Fragments of Olympian Gossip" is a poem that Nikola Tesla composed in the late 1920s for his friend the German poet and mystic George Sylvester Viereck George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 – March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German propagandist, latterly on behalf of the German Nazi government. Biography Early life Sylvester's father, Louis Viereck, was born .... It made fun of the scientific establishment of the day. ''While listening on my cosmic phone'' ''I caught words from the Olympus blown.'' ''A newcomer was shown around;'' ''That much I could guess, aided by sound.'' ''"There's Archimedes with his lever'' ''Still busy on problems as ever.'' ''Says: matter and force are transmutable'' ''And wrong the laws you thought immutable."'' ''"Below, on Earth, they work at full blast'' ''And news are coming in thick and fast.'' ''The latest tells of a cosmic gun.'' ''To be pelted is very poor fun.'' ''We are wary with so much at stake,'' ''Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sylvester Viereck
George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 – March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German propagandist, latterly on behalf of the German Nazi government. Biography Early life Sylvester's father, Louis Viereck, was born in Berlin in 1851, to the unmarried actress Edwina Viereck. It was rumored that Louis was the son of Kaiser William I, but Louis was acknowledged as a son instead by Louis von Prillwitz, a son of Prince Augustus of Prussia. In 1870, Louis joined the Socialist Party, and was banished from Berlin eight years later under Otto von Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws. In 1881 he became editor of a socialist periodical in Munich. In 1884 he was elected to the Reichstag, but in 1886 was imprisoned for attending Socialist Party meetings. He left the Party upon his release from prison. Sylvester's mother, Laura Viereck, was born in San Francisco to William Viereck, a younger brother of Edwina Viereck. William was an unsuccessful revolutionary who had f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920s Poems
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