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What else belongs on this list? 1. “Schrödinger's Cat:” invented as a send-up of Bohr and Heisenberg, now invoked as a demonstration of quantum mechanics →

2. “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden (“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”): written to satirize the exploitation of tragedy for political gain, now quoted earnestly at funerals →

3. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken:” written to mock an indecisive friend, now interpreted as salute to individualism