There's a similar story told by Bertrand Russell: 'There is a story of a man who got the experience from laughing gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout." '
“William James, psychologist and philosopher, woke one night feeling he had solved the ultimate mystery of life. The following morning he found that this doggerel was the great insight he had written down: Hogamous, higamous Man is polygamous Higamous, hogamous Woman is monogamous." - Tony Percy, 'Hogamous, Higamous!', VERBATIM Vol. XXIX, No.3.
There's a similar story told by Bertrand Russell: 'There is a story of a man who got the experience from laughing gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout." '
“William James, psychologist and philosopher, woke one night feeling he had solved the ultimate mystery of life. The following morning he found that this doggerel was the great insight he had written down:
Hogamous, higamous
Man is polygamous
Higamous, hogamous
Woman is monogamous."
- Tony Percy, 'Hogamous, Higamous!', VERBATIM Vol. XXIX, No.3.