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, October 31, 2019

An Honest Hypocrite Talks To A Presbyterian Minister

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Your run-of-the-mill dishonest hypocrite
doesn't really object to
the fraudulent trappings of religion:
the vain ceremonials,  the ceremonial vanities,
the bland absurdities of this ritual called worship.
Metaphorically speaking,
he devours the sanctimonious goodies
because they taste good NOT to his soul
but to his ego.
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Tidewater Morning
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Footnotes
The character speaking was within minutes 
of becoming a widow

The minister (with his wife)
walked into the man's house, uninvited

The narrator of this story,
told in flashback,
is the thirteen year-old boy
about to be orphaned

There are two companion 
(but independent) stories
within this short volume

The quote is from the title story
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