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, June 9, 2020

A Handwritten Letter From 21-Year-Old Scott Fitzgerald

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The recipient of this letter
—dated December 22, 1917—
was the first cousin of
Winston Churchill.

If you can enlarge the image,
the letter is very readable.
Shane Leslie was given
the manuscript of what became
Scott Fitzgerald's first novel
It was ultimately titled



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Footnotes
As requested by Scott Fitzgerald,
Sir Shane Leslie,
(a friend of Tolstoi)
gave the 80+ page manuscript
to esteemed editor  Maxwell Perkins

Perkins responded most encouragingly
to Fitzgerald but rejected
"The Romantic Egoist"
(sic)

Two years later, a re-titled
—and expanded—
manuscript was accepted
for publication

Exactly one week after publication,
Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre

The next
GoFather/Fitzgerald page
is  here
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