A million million spermatozoa • All of them alive • Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah • Dare hope to survive • And among that billion minus one • Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne • But the One was Me. Shame to have ousted your betters thus, • Taking ark while the others remained outside! • Better for all of us, • froward Homunculus, • If you’d quietly died! –ALDOUS HUXLEY