The GoFather Of Math: Thank You, Mr. Bennet, For This Definition Of An Editor

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, July 26, 2022

Thank You, Mr. Bennet, For This Definition Of An Editor

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A writer is a guy

in a hospital

wearing one of those gowns

that's open in the back.

An editor is walking

behind the writer,

making sure that no one

can see his ass.

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≈ JOHN BENNET ≈

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2 comments:

AnonymousJuly 26, 2022 at 8:42 AM
Mr. Bennett died earlier this month. He was both loved and hated
by the countless writers who graced the pages
of the New Yorker.

Those who loved him, knew him better than those who didn't.
Those who hated him, however, became better writers
as a result of Bennet's inspiration, wisdom,
and potty-mouth.
His occasional misogyny resulted—sooner or later—
in bouquets of privilege for its "victims."
on the victims
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