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, December 29, 2020

The Danger Of Mental Equilibrium

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Those whose mental equilibrium

is undisturbed

should henceforth be treated

as probably pathological

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MACHADO DE ASSIS 

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 29, 2020 at 9:41 AM

    That's a great quote
    but I never heard of its author

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  2. Paul OliverioDecember 29, 2020 at 9:52 AM

    Neither had I until two weeks ago
    when he was featured in
    NY Review of Books.
    I am presently reading Machado's
    Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

    The author is Brazil's most famous writer
    but is barely known elsewhere

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2021 at 4:28 PM

      Thanks for the introduction

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    2. Paul OliverioJanuary 5, 2021 at 4:29 PM

      Another Machado de Assis quote is here:

      https://gofatherofmath.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-ultimate-ambassador.html

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