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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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

The Second Of Two Very Literary Pages ... Happy Googling

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I am not a name-dropper.
I do not drop names:
I smash them against the wall
and admire the cascading shards
***
 
Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever,
Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck,
Alice Walker, Judy Blume,
William Faulkner, John Updike,
Joan Didion, Toni Morrison,
Mary McCarthy, Maya Angelou, 
Philip Roth, Dawn Powell,
Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer,
J.D. Salinger, J. D. Robb,
John Irving, Willa Cather,
Edith Wharton, Ralph Ellison
...
...
All of the above
are 20th Century American authors
whose novels have sold
a gazillion books

Two gazillion
if you include 
Danielle Steel and Tom Clancy

BUT
none of the above
is responsible for 
the most successful
work of American fiction
written in
the 20th Century

That honor goes to
this book:
Which does not include
this board game

The italic quote
at top of this page
is MINE
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