you're anxious for to shine in the highest scholar line As a man of culture rare, You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms And plump them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in lofty phrases Of your complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter Of the transcendental kind. Then everyone will say as you walk your mystic way, If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why what a singularly deep young man this deep young man must be.
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Hake et al. (1981) studied this question.