The GoFather Of Math: September 2016

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, September 29, 2016

Existentially Speaking [HKu #23]

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Sometimes we go to places
only to avoid being

somewhere else.

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Footnotes

EXISTENTIALLY SPEAKING

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

The next GoFather Haiku page is here.

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A Quote From Amusing Ourselves To Death

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Americans no longer talk to each other,

they entertain each other.

They do not exchange ideas,

they exchange images.

They do not argue with propositions;

they argue with good looks,

celebrities and commercials.

Neil Postman

Originally published in
1985

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#30] ... Up Against The Wall

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#29] ... HER Sunflower

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

The Cactus Choir

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The Cactus Choir

performs in front of

the Casino

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2 Pray Or Not 2 Pray

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To pray or not to pray

May or may not

Be the question

But the answer is:

Praying to this Guardian Angel

could be a lot of fun

© Mrs. Oliverio

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Footnote
Text and image are the copyrighted property
of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#28] ... The Sunflower Kisses The Sky

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Up close and personal
At a spectral hour

Here she is, again:
in full blossom,
bleached of color,
and twelve feet tall

The next CarPeo Set Piece is
here.

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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#27] ... As Requested By The Artist

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She insisted on seeing
the blue water

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Mr. Johnson's Lament

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The rocket

that flared with red glare

is now fueled

by flat air

so it does seem

giving transport

to a yellow stream
and a lost dream

***

Paul Oliverio

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Footnote

MR. JOHNSON'S LAMENT

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Wrought Irony

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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#26] ... Up To His Railing

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

I Think The Artist Prefers Picasso To Sargent

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Norman Rockwell
Picasso vs Sargent
(1966)

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I Will Never Stop Quoting DAWN POWELL

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If she was restless now, it was not that

she wanted an affair for lust's sake.

She had a genuine distaste for sexual

intimacy and hated to sacrifice

a facial appointment for

a mere frolic in bed.

But there were so many things

to be gained by trading on sex

and she thought so little

of the process that she itched

to use it as currency once again,

trading a half-hour in bed

for a flattering friendship,

a royal invitation...

power of whatever sort

appealed to her.

Dawn Powell

A Time To Be Born

(1942)


Quote is from page 24 of this edition. The next Dawn Powell quote is here.

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14/17ths Of A Haiku Pounded Without Verbs

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The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Ezra Pound

(1913)

IN A STATION OF THE METRO

He lived to the ripe
old age of
eighty-seven years
plus
two days

This page was inspired by
a distinguished
Long Beach poet

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Saturday, September 17, 2016

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#25] ... Another Groundhog View

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Footnotes
The next CarPeo Set Piece is here

The next Groundhog view is there

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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#24] ... They Could Have Been Legs

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Friday, September 16, 2016

For Serious Fans Of American Literature [With Tongue In Cheek]

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Excerpted from

The New York Times

12/9/84

It would be superb stuff if only the writer did not keep giving away the fact that he was a modern young American working in 1984. His anachronisms were not so much in the historical facts - those seemed accurate enough - but the point of view was too contemporary. The scenes might succeed - say it again, this young writer was talented! - but he kept betraying his literary influences.

The author of ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' had obviously been taught a lot by such major writers as Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos and John Steinbeck; he had certainly lifted from Faulkner and the mad tone Faulkner could achieve when writing about maniacal men feuding in deep swamps; he had also absorbed much of what Vonnegut and Heller could teach about the resilience of irony. If he had a surer feel for the picaresque than Saul Bellow in ''Augie March,'' still he felt derivative of that work. In places one could swear he had memorized ''The Catcher in the Rye,'' and he probably dipped into ''Deliverance'' and ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' He might even have studied the mannerisms of movie stars. You could feel traces of John Wayne, Victor McLaglen and Burt Reynolds in his pages. The author had doubtless digested many a Hollywood comedy on small-town life. His instinct for life in hamlets on the Mississippi before the Civil War was as sharp as it was farcical, and couldn't be more commercial.

Norman Mailer

Huck Finn at 100

Mark Twain's novel was originally

published in England in 1884.

The following year,

it was published in

the United States.

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

A Poem By Shel Silverstein + An Illustration By Cooper Edens

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SOMEBODY HAS TO

Somebody has to go polish the stars,
They're looking a little bit dull.
Somebody has to go polish the stars,
For the eagles and starlings and gulls
Have all been complaining

they're tarnished and worn,
They say they want new ones

we cannot afford.
So please get your rags
And your polishing jars,
Somebody has to go polish the stars.

⬆︎⬆︎

Shel Silverstein
(2010)

Cooper Edens
(2003)

⬇︎⬇︎

Shel Silverstein

may or may not

have been inspired

by the art of

Cooper Edens

and

Cooper Edens

may or may not

have been inspired

by the poetry of

Shel Silverstein

but

They both belong

on the same page!

Mr. Edens' illustration
is from his book
If You're Afraid of the Dark,
Add One More Star to the Night
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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#23] ... Aeriel View + Midnight Vertical View

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Aerial View

from Google Maps:

Vertical View

from Oceanfront

Driveway:

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Midpoint Of Base = HIS Feet

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James Tissot
Crucifixtion, View From The Cross
(1890)

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Haiku For My Successful Diet [HKu #22]

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My diet always
works out good
unless I'm in
the presence
of food.

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Footnotes

HAIKU FOR MY SUCCESSFUL DIET

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

The next GoFather Haiku page is here.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#22] ... Two Pink Steps + Twenty-Nine Specks

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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

The 70th Bullet: The Problem With Solutions

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Once you have solved
a personal problem,
you may not be able
to get anymore sympathy and pity
from friends and family.

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Footnote

THE 70th BULLET is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
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Saturday, September 10, 2016

A Twist Of Twain: From Prose To Verse

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The mist curl up off of the water,
and the east reddens up,
and the river

...

The nice breeze springs up,
and comes fanning you
from over there,
so cool and fresh and
sweet to smell on account
of the woods and the flowers

...

And next you’ve got the full day,
and everything smiling in the sun,
and the song-birds just going it!

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Friday, September 9, 2016

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#21] ... Colorized By Carol

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Red sits at the edge bottom's curve balances.
Blue is right at the lover's left.

Hair is here up there.
Glasses smooth the seen scene.

A panorama they call it.

Mrs. Oliverio
© (Text + Image) ©

The next CarPeo Set Piece is
here.

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Photoverio © (#221): The Potter's Alley

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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#20] ... My View Of HER "First Sunset"

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Not Exactly What Langston Had In Mind

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I’ve known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul

has grown deep

like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Dialog From Peter De Vries' Blood Of The Lamb

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The religious beliefs

of the narrator

are in crisis because

his ten year-old daughter

is dying of leukemia.

The narrator

addresses

"The Man Upstairs"

Peter De Vries

The Blood of the Lamb

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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#19] ... A Supreme Moment

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STOP
In the Name of ~~Love~~
Beach Etiquette

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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#18] ... Fish-Eye Follies: After The Mass

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Father Circumference
All-encompassing and Caring

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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#17] ... Fish-Eye Follies: The Shnozz

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I love Jimmy Durante

The next CarPeo Set Piece is
here.

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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#16] ... Fish-Eye Follies: The Beach

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Hillside Beach

The next CarPeo Set Piece is
here.

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Monday, September 5, 2016

Some Call This Entertainment

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A replica of a 17-th century London on a barge
floating on the River Thames burns in an event
to mark the 350th Anniversary
of the Great Fire of London.

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Art Daily
9/4/16

The first caption is verbatim.

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Sunday, September 4, 2016

CarPeo Set Piece ... [#15] ... Escapee From A Zurbaran Still Life

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Francisco de Zurbaran

Still Life with Lemons,
Oranges, and a Rose
(1633)

The next CarPeo Set Piece is
here.

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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#14] ... A Spaghetti Skien

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S is for Spiderwoman

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Quoting Peter De Vries

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There are times when parenthood

seems nothing more than

feeding the hand

that bites you.

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Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks,

it gathers itself like a clock about to strike.

It might even be said one pulls

himself together to disintegrate.

***

The universe is like a safe to which

there is a combination.

But the combination

is locked up

in the safe.

***

"So death by leukemia is now
a local instead of an express.
Same run, only a few more stops.
But that’s medicine,
the art of prolonging disease."

PETER DE VRIES

More DeVries quotes
can be found
here.

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The Light Switch Has No Powers Of Speech Haiku [HKu #21]

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It is much easier
to curse the darkness
than to find the light switch.

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Footnotes

LIGHT SWITCH HAS NO POWERS OF SPEECH

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

The next GoFather Haiku page is here.

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