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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Sunday, October 18, 2015

Man Ray And Meret And Pablo And...

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 It began with a joke over lunch.

  In 1936, Meret Oppenheim 
 was at a Paris café with...
 Pablo Picasso, who noticed 
 the fur-lined, polished metal    
 bracelet she was wearing    
 and joked that anything 
 could be covered 
 with fur. 

“Even this cup and saucer,” 
 Oppenheim replied and, 
 carrying the merriment 
 further, called out, 

“Waiter, a little more fur!”





But
what 
the hell 
does that 
have to
do with
a greasy
nude with 
one hand
on the
wheel?

You, 
the reader,
might ask.




Me, the writer, will answer: 

Meret Oppenheim  was not only a true Surrealist sculptor/artist
who created the fur-lined teacup within days after 
asking the waiter for more fur...

She was also a muse and a model.

The "greasy nude" is Ms. Oppenheim and the 1933 photograph 
was taken by Man Ray for his experimental photography 
in  Erotique Voilee.  ________________________________________________________________________________________________


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