"Smalltalk is an amazing and legendary language divulged to humans by Prometheus. This angered the gods enough they condemned him to refactor a big ball of Hadean mud for all eternity."
First paragraph from http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Smalltalk/onSTL.rd oc (the Approximity blog).
It gets better (or worse) after that :-)
--Alan