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, June 18, 2015

The Octogenarian Fashion Model And Sage For All Ages

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Joan Didion was born in 1934. 

Last year, her full page image 
appeared in  Vogue, 
modeling Celine Sunglasses.


Why, you might ask, would a magazine 
use an 80-year-old to model anything?

Because she wore the same sunglasses in 1961.



That is the year Vogue published
Didion's groundbreaking essay:


Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters
across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends 
when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. 
Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind 
on the outs with itself should have nonetheless 
made painstaking record of its every tremor, 
I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor 
of those particular ashes. 

It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

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