Damn I was thinking of this paper randomly for years but never bothered to find it, I had read it ages ago at undergrad I think.

@Stoori you're bound to have opinions about this lol

https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/meta/1992-v37-n1-meta335/003356ar/

Grigori M. Kružkov, "Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Poetry Translation", 1992.

Looks like there's a good handful of recent articles that are stealing the idea from this one, sneakily. Plagiarism, it's the geist of our zeit..