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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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Quoting KURT VONNEGUT From A Letter Written in 1959

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I am stuck with
the risk of
being me.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 24, 2022 at 9:23 AM

    This quote actually applies to ALL of us.

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    1. Paul OliverioNovember 24, 2022 at 9:25 AM

      That's the beauty of our favorite authors:
      what they write has a universal meaning

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  2. AnonymousNovember 24, 2022 at 9:30 AM

    If Kurt Vonnegut were stuck with being someone other than himself,
    the vast world of literature would be considerably less vast.

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    1. Paul OliverioNovember 24, 2022 at 9:31 AM

      So be it

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    2. Paul OliverioNovember 30, 2022 at 1:02 PM

      Click below for the next Vonnegut quote...

      https://gofatherofmath.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-re-formatted-quote-from-his-book.html?sc=1669841842240#c2838734977260002834

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