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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Saturday, May 19, 2018

Question + Answer ... About At Least 69% of Everything We Say

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QUESTION
Was it  Dostoevsky 
who said
The Lie is the Truth's best friend
because without the Lie,
the Truth would have no place to hide


ANSWER
No

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But the source is identified
on the very first page of
the GodFather of Math Trilogy

The source is  just another
uncomfortably retired

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Footnotes
The number in the title coincides with
the birthday I celebrated yesterday. 
 
In the fourth chapter of his autobiography,
William  Saroyan wrote:
Love of Truth
has made a liar out of me

The next
GoFather/Saroyan
page is
here  
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