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, November 26, 2015

Post-Humous Gratitude From Kurt Vonnegut...Thanksgiving 2015

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The head of The Department of Anthropology 
at [the University of] Chicago...

became the most satisfying teacher in my life. 
He scarcely noticed me. He looked at me 
as though I were a small furry animal 
Kurt Vonnegut
W..F...and G
[p.189]
trapped in an office wastebasket.
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Footnotes
The teacher Vonnegut referred to was  Robert Redfield.
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