Spartans talked little. With oracular speech, Verdicts and ultimatums, Apophthegms and Aphorisms, Compressed Their gigantic notions Into dwarfish words Aiming At maximum intensity. For the more we talk with less, The less the distance to infinity. In the beginning came the Word — with a Big Bang that reverberated Across the abyss of dark matter — Born From omnipotent Silence.