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, November 22, 2015

Describing The Protaganist Of A Jean-Paul Sartre Novel

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but not likable…If you look at his eyes, you can see 
he knows too much. He’s the sort of fellow 
who can’t enjoy anything in a simple way, 
either eating, or drinking or sleeping with women. 

He has to think about everything. 
It’s like that voice of his: 
the cutting voice of a gentleman 
who is never wrong–I know it goes with the job 
of having to explain things to small boys. 
I had a teacher who talked like him 
but I’m not at school anymore 
and I find it tiresome.”
     
  The protagonist is Mathieu Delarue who teaches philosophy 
at a public school. The description is given by Lola, 
a cabaret dancer.  She is the only character 
in The Age of Reason older than Mathieu. 
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