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, January 15, 2015

Somewhere in Virginia...

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This is from  Mr. Click
In her sister's house, there are miniature horses
in bronze, in silver, in absentia 
because Linda died
in 1975.

Her brother got the occasional $20 bill
smuggled into an article of clothing
because our father would explain
to the drinking crowd at
Rockefeller Center that
his little boy had
a paper route.

The little boy
was saving money
so that someday he would
be able to attend an Ivy League college.


In fact, in 1957...
My father was mythologizing while mixologizing
and I was much more interested in going to the Polo Grounds
to see Willie Mays play baseball  than going to Hardvard
to learn that is not how you spell it!

However, the tips provided by the likes of Howard Cosell,
Johnny Carson, Eleanor Roosevelt and all the other
patrons who frequented the English Grill
were immediately converted to horseplay:

He would go to the most select gift shops
beneath the world famous skating rink
and buy miniature horses and
horse trinkets because his
dutiful and beautiful
daughter loved
such things.

She had so much fun
on that rink: pirouetting,
speed circling, and one-footing.
But she always came to my rescue when I would fall on my ass.

 The next Linda page is  here.
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