Hernandez

I'd love to speak with the dead. Not the sixth sense way but more like Isabel Allende type way. Speak with the greats - Curie, Jackson, Kennedy, Confucius and Gandhi. I'd need a new lifetime, another lease on life to speak with the dead. Who said I wasn't a fan of irony.

We're in an age were the greats are still undiscovered. Given there is some academic excitement about Tukey and Siegel but they have not reached the status of greats. Brown (of the Dan persuasion) is not oft quoted for his literary achievements. His formulaic and tired prose is more reminiscent of a cheapened Fleming - a great on his own right. Perhaps the question would become if Rowling or Paulson will be the quoted luminaries of tomorrows research books.

The true objective right now is becoming one who is paraphrased. Who's ideas are completely twisted to fit the particular fad-induced theory. Anyone can become a footnote. It's easy. So much of the academic research today consists of hundred of footnotes, endnotes and paraphrased citation with a key interspersed original thought here and there. Eventually a new article becomes another one of the footnotes in the most symbiotically stable processes ever.

To create something new that predates normal thought. Harder than it seems. Writing up the bylaws to some conference named after the city - pick one, Doha, Kyoto, Bretton-Woods - is easy, however time-consuming. And by this standard Geneva is the big easy. Create an institution to establish greatness.

Think of Euro - a rivaling currency. If someone unites the arab world under a caliphate - an empire with the capital and man power to rival China or the U.S. Or consider the giant Petrobras in Brazil - a pseudo-guvernamental institution to build a company to rival BP or Exxon.

I want to be named Hernandez in posterity. For it were just Diego then I'd be a popstar and a full name is reminiscent of the obits. But a last name in reference to my 4 currency world markets or the rebirth of Mexico. It's Emerson's simplicity.

Hernandez.