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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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

The Timeless Words Of JOHN DOS PASSOS

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America
our nation has been 
beaten by strangers
who have turned 
our language
inside out
who have taken
the clean words
our fathers spoke
and made them
slimy and foul
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JOHN DOS PASSOS
(1936)
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  1. AnonymousJuly 19, 2023 at 10:50 AM

    Timeless indeed, it sounds like Mr. Dos Passos
    was in Washington DC on January 6, 2021.

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    1. AnonymousJuly 19, 2023 at 10:57 AM

      Oliverio says it is scary how true that sounds.

      The Big Money is Volume Three
      of the exquisite panoramic Dos Passos Trilogy, USA

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