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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Saturday, July 16, 2022

Down The Rabbit Hole ... Page Six Of X

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  A healthy male adult
[American] bore
consumes each year
one and a half times
his own weight
in other people's patience.

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This statistical anomaly
was published
nine months before
 Rabbit Angstrom
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  1. AnonymousJuly 16, 2022 at 3:19 PM

    At no extra charge for the next sessions, Dr. Raft hereby permits you
    to express your true feelings about the New Yorker issue
    in which Updike's essay was originally published.

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    1. Paul OliverioJuly 16, 2022 at 3:23 PM

      The cover of the FEBRUARY 6, 1960 issue
      of The New Yorker is one I would kill
      to have a copy of because it also celebrates
      my parents' wedding anniversary

      https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/02/06

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