The GoFather Of Math: Uber Pythagoras + President Garfield: Out Of Focus

It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART

I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Uber Pythagoras + President Garfield: Out Of Focus

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Above chalkboard,

Pythagoras (L) and (partially) James Garfield (R)

The out-of-focus look is by design:
to obscure identity of those beneath the images
of a pair of my math heroes.

The crouching boy was best known for his smile
and inability to do classwork.

He helped the girls exercise their freedoms:
the Freedom to be distracted
+
the Freedom to gossip
while the teacher
might as well have been talking
to paper cuts of Pythagoras and Garfield.

All I really remember about Smiley is his uncorruptible grade.
"A rock-solid F" was coded, amongst my colleagues,
as RSF. We knew them well.

Within three years of this 1997 classroom photo,
Smiley got two of the girls pregnant.

Then he disappeared.

By 2015, it is a sure thing that he has fathered
six children by as many different girls.

But doesn't he have a beautiful smile?

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