You’re holding your hands out — perfectly natural —
And an arm will rise up out of the ground
And pull the branches you’re balancing down;
It’s all quite normal; everything’s rational.
No lack of ability leads to any mistake
If the mind wanders or axioms slacken;
It makes no difference to the law of attraction —
The physics of the Kraken and the Lady of the Lake.
Acting as a water-meadow, a tidal field,
Particle-waves, grain and water aligning
Mass, the masses are drawn to divining,
And out of a crowd, two bodies yield;
As anyone can predict, and as for failure,
Shoulders trembling from what the proof omits,
Handwaving is it? a lack of detail, you’re
Unaware of it when standing in the midst.
The Kraken – A mythical sea beast of gigantic size, the subject of a poem by English poet
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892):
Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
The Lady of the Lake – An enchantress in Arthurian legend.
Handwaving – Figuratively, glossing over an assertion without providing necessary details.