Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Upon Contemplating Richard Brautigan

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© Oliverio
I have always wanted to end 
a caption with the words
Richard Brautigan






My foliage is red and able.

 I am a Japanese Red Maple.

 My neighbor is tall
and bare of limb.

 I do like him.










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Footnotes
The definition of a  Brautaginian  is one who reads the caption above
and immediately thinks of the word "mayonaisse." 

That caption is the most esoteric joke in the GodFather of Math trilogy.

The next Richard Brautigan page is  here.

Presently, this page is more than doubled in length by the comments below.  
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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 7:47 AM

    Leaves of lovd

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 8:02 AM

    Why isn't this (and the previous image)
    a Photoverio page?

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    1. Paul OliverioFebruary 4, 2015 at 8:21 AM

      The important thing is that both photographs
      are copyrighted.

      Because of what I deem an excess
      of "manipulations" on the original
      images, I do not want to diminish
      the Photoverio style.

      The text of both pages is also copyrighted.

      Delete
    2. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 8:24 AM

      Maybe you should attribute
      these images to Technoverio.

      Delete
  3. Paul OliverioFebruary 4, 2015 at 8:42 AM

    Thank you for the cute and clever idea.

    But, at this time, the CarPeo braintrust
    needs to work on two more
    Jetty Photoverio images.

    PS
    The image above is another photgraph
    from the Getty Garden.

    Last month, I was there with three friends
    and three hundred new memories.

    Had it not been a Japanese maple,
    I might not have been contemplating
    RICHARD BRAUTIGAN.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 12:14 PM

    Once upon a time,
    Richard was all aces in the literary world.
    But then somebody
    stuck a few jokers in the deck.

    --Anonymous Art Critic #9
    a/k/a Susana Sooksinta

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    1. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 12:22 PM

      Susana, you got it backwards:

      Richard Brautigan was the joker in the deck
      until the literary world decided to play it straight.

      --Anonymous Art Critic #18
      a/k/a Mehta Forthwright

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  5. Paul OliverioFebruary 4, 2015 at 1:15 PM

    Sorry #9, but #18 wins on accuracy points

    Mehta might have made an allowance for Vonnegut's
    successful yetnot-so-straight style of fiction
    but Richard was more the joker
    than the joked upon.

    Susana, I do appreciate that the poetic license
    of your comment contains many
    colors of the rainbow.

    However, is it possible that
    one of those colors
    prevented you
    from spelling
    your name
    correctly?

    Is it missing a second k ?

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    1. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 1:19 PM

      Paul, I am so embarrassed!
      You are correct.

      I am Susana Sooksinkta.

      I hope none of my literature students
      at the University of Montana
      read this.

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