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, January 15, 2021

MACHADO dE ASSIS Knew Sam and Grace

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If conjugal felicity could be

compared to the grand prize

in a lottery, they had won it

with the ticket they

purchased together

 

 

 

 

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9 comments:

  1. This is the only picture
    of your mother with a wide nose.

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    1. The year was 1946
      and she was pregnant with
      her first born: LINDA

      There is an old wives' tale
      that a female embryo
      widens the nose
      of its' carrier.

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    2. And you were born in 1949.
      Yes?

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    3. You know me well.
      I was minus three years old
      when this photo was taken
      at (I believe) Ferndale, NY

      There is absolutely, positively
      no way my fetus could have produced
      so much unmitigated happiness
      in my parents.

      Many relatives and friends
      have seen this image but no one
      described it more accurately than
      my living sister.

      She called it sensuous

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    4. Oh, by the way...
      MACHADO dE Assis
      was describing
      a photograph of
      his parents

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    5. What a co-inky-dink

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    6. You are beginning
      to sound too much like me

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    7. Then can I send you the bill
      for the NYRBie 1000-page Omnibus
      of Machado de Assis?

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    8. NO!!!

      And no further comment
      Unless you also get an omnibus
      of DAWN POWELL

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