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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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Poem For A Minnesota Girl From 17-Year Scott Fitzgerald

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The Poet
Under-age
But Over-talented


My mind is all a-tumble
And the letter seems a jumble
for the words they seem to mumble
And my pens about to stumble
and the papers made to jumble
So I sign myself your humble
Servant
Francis Scott Fitzgerald 










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Footnotes
Both links lead to letters written by Scott
to Elizabeth "Litz" Clarkson

Both September letters are mostly prose
but neither makes reference to  his 17th birthday
(September 24, 1913)

My next /Fitzgerald page is  here
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