I LOVE the term "egghead" and here is the famous egghead himself reading a book!
I have a hard time swallowing clichés and trite sayings. In conversation one day, to bolster his position, someone actually used the phrase "In order to make an omelette you have to break some eggs." For me that was the end of the conversation.
With this in mind, here's what Russell Edson has to say:
THE LIFE OF MAN
For breakfast a man must break an egg. Then not all the king's horses and all the king's men can do very much about it.
Past perfect the broken egg no longer breaks, a dead man no longer dies . . .
And as he spills the broken egg into a frying pan he mutters, Ah, well, too bad about Humpty Dumpty . . .
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