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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Sunday, January 16, 2022

Plagiarizing ALEXANDER POPE

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
with loads of learned lumber in his head.

(1711)
 
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The hopeful hophead, ignorantly read,
with dockets of divine drivel
in the head.
 
PETEY PLAJARISTA
(2022)
 
 
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Footnote
I am grateful to Nicholson Baker
for introducing me to this wordacious pearl
but his name-dropping tsunami
gave me a horrible headache.
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2022 at 5:45 AM

    Nicholson Baker is one of those MUST-READ authors
    who requires a warning sign.

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    1. Paul OliverioJanuary 16, 2022 at 5:48 AM

      I couldn't agree with you more
      but I am mighty glad that after
      seventy-two circumnavigations
      of the calendar, I
      can finally quote
      Alexander Pope

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