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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Friday, April 24, 2020

The First Commercially Published Poem Of A 21-Year-Old FSF

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SCOTT FITZGERALD 

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Footnotes
Previous poems of Scott Fitgerald
had appeared in school publications
or letters

THE WAY OF PURGATION
was sold to Poet Lure Magazine
and published in their September 1917 issue

That month, FSF celebrated
his 21st birthday

The next page
reveals what was written
two years before
the following question was asked:
Who knows what evil lurks
in the hearts of men 
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