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 13, 2018

A Poem From China That Could Have Been Written Anywhere

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Last year you went
with your troops
to Tibet.
And when your men
had vanished
beyond the city-wall, 
news was cut off
between the two worlds
as between
the living and the dead.
 
No one has come upon
a faithful horse guarding
a  crumpled tent or torn flag,
or any trace of you.
 
If only I knew,
I might serve you
in the temple, 
instead of these tears
toward the far sky.

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ZHANG JI

Thinking of a Friend
  Lost in the Tibetan War    

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