Joseph Needham

Joseph Needham
dances with philosophic freedom.
You have to mind your toes if
You go dancing with Joseph.

Anon
Joseph Needham was a western scholar famous for his study of Chinese Science, and apparently in his youth was a morris dancer. I don't know where this verse comes from. I heard it from my father and it is presumably part of the Cambridge oral tradition. I have found no sources for it on the internet.
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