The Best "Short Story" That No One Has Ever Read ...

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Will hopefully be posted here

in its entirety

But since it was first written

in 1938, time is on my side

The Author's surname

rhymes with 

OWL

And her first name

morphs into

the rising of the sun

Meanwhile,

you may be able to find it

on your own

The "title" is 

Harlem to Bay Ridge

It would be quite famous
if and only if
the novel
THE HAPPY ISLAND
were subtitled

A Short Story Anthology
Unfortunately Disguised
As A Novel

***
Harlem to Bay Ridge
has therefore been
read before
by countless
Dawn Powell fans
but not as 
  "a short story"

The next Dawn Powell page
is  here
 

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The Trumpian Opposite But Equal Of Our Laughter

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Applause

with no cause

but flaws

deceit and claws

scratching out all

hope for elocution

Is applause

that withdraws

from decent laws

because we need

a therapeutic non-solution

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

THE TRUMPIAN OPPOSITE

BUT EQUAL OF LAUGHTER

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

The next

GoFather/Trump

page is

here

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What Is Not Wasted On Youth [HKu #68]

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The wonderful years

of youth:

when wisdom does its best

to disappear

   

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Footnotes

WHAT IS NOT WASTED ON YOUTH

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

 GoFather/Haiku #69
is the last of the linked haikus
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Sestet Poetry From Powell And Paul

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Luck knew no rules

gave no prizes

for good behavior

Skill fills the pools

with big prizes

of every flavor

***

DAWN POWELL

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

Dawn Powell's three lines

are from The Happy Island

They were written in 1938

My three lines were written

yesterday

My next Dawn Powell page

is here

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125th Bullet: A Few Words About Cats

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Cats do not have

Mother figures

and Father figures.

Cats have

Mother feeders

and Father feeders. 

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Footnotes

THE 125th BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Only the first forty-five Bullets

are linked in order to make

our favorite thieves work harder  

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Two More Quotes From SAUL BELLOW

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Concealment through candor

guarantees duplicity with honor

***

When the dear

disappear

there are others

waiting near

 

SAUL BELLOW

Humboldt's Gift

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Footnotes

Another quote from this book appears

here

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Happy Birthday To The Man Formerly Known As ... Mr. Little

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Malcolm X
born 5/19/25
died 2/21/65
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Nine People (et al) + Two Words = Today

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Reggie Jackson...Bertrand Russell...Tina Fey

Pope John Paul II...Big Joe Turner...Brooks Robinson

Perry Como...Pernell Roberts...Paul Oliverio

+ 

HAPPY

BIRTHDAY

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124th Bullet: What Memory Is NOT

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Memory is not

a precision instrument

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Footnotes

THE 124th BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Only the first forty-five Bullets

are linked in order to make

our favorite thieves work harder

This bullet

was originally written in

≈1998≈ 

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The Natural Way To Disguise An Inferiority Complex

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Humans are so adaptable

and they have

the capability of  speech 

that declares as much.

But all species are adaptable 

and have some form of speech.

What singles out humans

is the need to state, 

through their vaulted powers of speech,

their undeniable superiority

to all other species. 

This is what some psychologists call

"an indelible sign of an inferiority complex."

Consider the rush hour commuter 

whose car is moving

less than one mile an hour

then looks up to a sky 

full of birds flying free-form 

with no bottle-necked

lanes of flight:

Ask that bottle-necked commuter

which is the superior species.

The commuter would ultimately say

"But has any bird ever created

a printing press or a computer?"

The answer is no bird has ever had 

a need to invent such things.

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

THE NATURAL WAY

TO DISGUISE AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

This page was originally written
—with format intact—

as the first chapter of

GodFather of Math, The Novel

But I am not ready to provide

a link to that chapter

  😥

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Re: An Extraordinary Irish-American Author (Born in St. Paul)*

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If  Scott Fitzgerald 

had been a Protestant,

Success 

wouldn't have damaged him

so much

***

SAUL BELLOW

Humboldt's Gift

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Footnotes

The next GoFather/Fitzgerald quote

is here

A Fitzgerald short story
—set in a Catholic Church—
was published sixty-two years
after his death
*
Scott Fitzgerald
was born in
St. Paul, Minnesota
 

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Inspired By A Widowed Typo

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"Throw the ball out the widow

and give the bend to Sleepy Sam"

Whoever caught the symbolism

of the misplaced  n

I refer to as my friend

***

PAUL OLIVERIO 

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Footnotes

INSPIRED BY A WIDOWED TYPO

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

The poem, to which my name links,

is dedicated to Nipsey Hussle

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Photoverio #372: Corollary To "99 Bottles"

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99 bottles of Beer

on a wall

© Oliverio
Almost 99 bottle-brush flowers
on a wall

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The Book That Will Never Be Written

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The one book that no writer

has ever written

or ever will write

is the totally honest

autobiography or memoir

≈ FREDERICH NIETZSCHE ≈

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Footnote

Nietzsche was indirectly quoted

in the introduction to

Paul Kocak's

Chasing Willie Mays

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Now Starring In The New HBO Film ... CHERNOBYL

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Seven-Eye Susie Stalingrad
!!!

Only kidding!

Art Daily
5/7/19

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The 123rd Bullet: Kissing Cousins?

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Necessity is the cousin
of Desire.

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Footnotes

THE 123rd BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Only the first forty-five Bullets

are linked in order to make

our favorite thieves work harder

This bullet
was originally written in
≈1998≈ 

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Quoting Frances Steerling For The Unknownth Time

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If God were alive today,

he'd probably be

an atheist.

FRANCES STEERLING

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Footnotes

All Frances Steerling pages

are the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

The next
GoFather/Steerling
page is here

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There's Something About Kentucky

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Wow!

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Another Institute Of Inane Research Quote About Mr. Christ

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God gave man teeth

so that His only begotten son

would become a dentist

and make his mother proud.

 His son, however, became a savior

and lived a life in a loincloth.

Saving souls was not as profitable

as saving molars

but was much more marketable.

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Footnotes

This quote is the copyrighted property

of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

The Institute of Inane Research

is a subdivision of LCSoL

In 1982, the Institute

mistakenly attributed this quote

to the King James Brown Bible.

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