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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Friday, November 27, 2015

A Worm's Eye View Of History

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© Oliverio
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To the human eye,
this is a withered, 
old tree


But to a woodworm,
this is a condo 
complex


And that woodworm could be
descended from an uninvited 
guest aboard Noah's Ark...



Julian Barnes
A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
[excerpted from Chapter 1: The Stowaway] 





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