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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Monday, December 14, 2020

To Make A Quatrain Sestet ... Number Thirty-Nine

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To make a sestet using
 a cliche from 
The Book Divine
 
Those who pontificate 
believe they are casting 
pearls before swine 
 
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Footnotes
TO MAKE A QUATRAIN
... 
[or any of its variants]
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

"The Book Divine"
refers to
Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal

The next page
in this series
is  here
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7 comments:

  1. Paul OliverioDecember 14, 2020 at 7:55 AM

    I dedicate this page
    to all the wonderful
    pontificators at
    THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

    https://www.nybooks.com/

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  2. AnonymousDecember 14, 2020 at 7:57 AM

    Does this mean you read NYRB
    with a salivating snout?

    ReplyDelete
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    1. Paul OliverioDecember 14, 2020 at 8:06 AM

      Great image but not quite accurate:
      if the book reviewer's PQ
      is above 50%, I just go on
      to the next essay.

      But regardless of the reviewer/essayist
      Pontification Quotient,
      I will learn something from
      their written words even if it is
      no more than his/her confessing
      to be no more an intellectual lap dog
      for some deservedly forgotten
      poet from the nineteenth century.

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    2. AnonymousDecember 14, 2020 at 8:07 AM

      Why do you read
      the New York Review of Books
      if you feel so negative
      about it?

      Delete
    3. Paul OliverioDecember 14, 2020 at 8:14 AM

      Mi dulce boba
      I thought you could read between the lines.
      I've been a subscriber for two years
      an each issue has AT LEAST five pieces
      that I enjoy reading and truly
      gain enlightenment from...
      I am presently awaiting
      for a novel by Gogol
      solely because of
      a Nerbie piece entitled
      "An Incandescent Inanity"

      All posted pages about HG Wells
      would not exist without
      a serious reading
      from a 2019 NYRBie piece

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    4. AnonymousDecember 14, 2020 at 8:15 AM

      I get the picture, boba.

      Delete
    5. Paul OliverioDecember 14, 2020 at 8:18 AM

      From one good idiot to another:
      when you use a demeaning
      foreign phrase, you can make it
      sound like a hearty compliment

      But i prefer my "boba" in italics.
      to another

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