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, March 30, 2023

The One + Only Time A Salinger Story Was Read To ME

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The story was
and it was read to me aloud
by an adopted cousin
who read it "perfectly"
from start to finish
despite his mother believing
that her son
born in Mexico—
was a Special Ed student
with serious reading disabilities
 
The date was October 15, 2011
 
We were driving from
Massapequa to Flushing
to honor the 40th anniversary
of my Mother's passing
 
His Mother, 
a Special Ed teacher
for thirty years,
was incapable of realizing
that her son had
an IQ superior
to most of his well-bred
Caucasian Nassau County classmates
but the boy's constant winking
at his adopted Uncle
in the presence
of his parents
was a secret pleasure
I will treasure 
for a lifetime
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2 comments:

  1. "The boy" read the story to you twelve years ago,
    what has become of him?

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    1. Oliverio says:
      For reasons that are too horrible to mention,
      that weekend was the last time I saw "the boy"
      and there has been no further correspondence
      between us, nor with any other member of his family

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