Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
“And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals—my old and valued friends—Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.”
— Oliver Sacks, book Uncle Tungsten
Source: Uncle Tungsten (2001), p. 317
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