Ruminations on a Bad Eighties Song

"What do you think it means? I mean, how could she blind him with science?"

"Maybe it's a boredom thing. Like, she was talking about her dissertation in a bar, and it was so boring that it blinded him."

"Yeah, or maybe she was carrying a beaker of sulfuric acid and she tripped and spilled it on his face. Or magnesium in a flame--that will blind you if you look directly at it."

"It could be methanol. She could have been doing a transfer and forgot to take off her gloves, and got methanol on his hands."

"Or maybe someone put cesium to close to a tank of fluorine. Blinded by science. Of course, it would do a lot of other things too...deafened by science..."

"Or dismembered by science. Maybe that's what the song should be called."