Seeking Ferret

You give Whitman waaaaaaaay more credit than I do. I read it as, "I didn't understand the equations at all, and around about the fourth Wikipedia page, I said 'fuck it, this is hard' and so went and engaged with the stars in the only way I can manage but meanwhile inexplicably considered myself superior to the people who do understand and write the wikipedia pages, because I assume that writing Wikipedia pages about stars is mutually exclusive with looking at the stars, as opposed to being deeply dependent on it."

Or, as grrlpup said above: SO SMUG.

btw, I feel pretty much the same way about Poe's sonnet about science.