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Can we pontificate for a moment about the world and how it would be if Biot did, in fact, smoke opium instead of study the optical properties of biotite? Would Hitler not have wiped out millions? Would George W. Shrub be in power? Could the sheer magnititude of Biot's motivation to look at thin sections be enough of a force to knock Florida a few votes over into Al Gore's favor. But then where would we be in the fight about Global Warming? Ludacris wouldn't have a political ally to chill beside and be bros with. Then what? No more neat rap songs in red pumas?

I can't comprehend a world.

Oh Biot, what if you smudged the ink and wrote, "orthorhombic" instead of "monoclinic"? Could we shift the scientific fabric enough to create a window for another upcoming petrologist to correct you? Would we still call the mineral biotite? Maybe it could be Bushite. Hitlerite. Polpotite. Would this have changed Annite's and Phlogopite's names? Maybe they could have Mussoliniite and Cheneyite. But then our enemies could be an estranged Biot.

Would you, Biot? Would you, could you, drop the microscope, pick up a gun, and cause a revolution? I wish I knew who you were. You evil bastard. Either way you look at it, you've caused me much grief in my life. But at the same time, you added so much to my life. This hatred...bah, I can't fight it anymore!

Let's be lovers, Biot. You and me. I'll share my fieldbook with you.