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 15, 2023

THE NECESSARY NARRATIVE Of ... DR. JAMES RAFT

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I am Dr. James Raft,
Paul Oliverio's psychoanalyst
and life long friend
 
But I will not
allow friendship 
to interfere with
payment for services 
rendered
 
Paul's preference is to 
describe his age as
 "twice thirty-seven"
 
He lives
on a fixed income
—both comfortably and uncomfortably—
  in Long Beach, California
 
The GodFather of Math Trilogy
presently in
Chapter Seven
has totaled more than 7000 pages
of wit, wisdom, pretension
and jabberwocky
 
Paul's blogs appear to have 
no formal followers
and we both prefer it that way
 
In truth,
my patient is very popular
in Malaysia, 
China and Russia,
where translations are sent 
to European countries
whose writers
then take credit
for what
was created by
Paul Oliverio
 
This generates
enough funding for Paul
to afford
psychoanalysis
 
However,
his page production 
has slowed down
significantly
 
Once upon a time,
Paul Oliverio was
averaging sixty pages monthly
 
A passage of time
 reduced the blogging to 
a constant fifty/monthly
 
However,
 he is presently averaging
barely forty pages monthly

The 2023 Wimbledon 
Tennis Tournament
is partly responsible
for this

But
—more importantly—
his music file
is the greatest deterrent
to his output

The genius of his 
tripled the size
of his music file

Before this happened,
each of approximately
four thousand tracks had been
listened to
AT LEAST
ten times

But the technician added
twice that many tracks
including a ten-pack
of Peggy Lee songs,
endless hours of
the Beatles at BBC,
Gene Pitney singing
an X-rated song
with the Rolling Stones,
virtually every song
ever recorded by
RICHARD BERRY,
who wrote the song
"Louie, Louie"
 
There are also
nearly 200 tracks of
Ella Fitzgerald,
Count Basie
+ Duke Ellington
...
...
And 
an Italian composer
named SPINACHIO VERTIGO
 
Paul Olverio
has "pages-in-development"
regarding the film BLOW-UP
and
the collapsing Tacoma-Narrows Bridge
 
There are also in-progress pages
about
Snoop Dogg, James Garfield,
Mozart's 40th Symphony,
a blues guitarist devotee
of the artist Giotto 
named "Joe Toe,"
Hommel figurines
and the actress
GREER GARSON,
etcetra, etcetra
***
 
If Paul does not
get around 
to posting these pages,
he will no longer afford
to pay his therapist
and
—I fear—
I might soon
be writing Paul Oliverio's
 obituary  
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6 comments:

  1. What other musical gems were added to your music file?

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  2. To name a small few—says Oliverio—Willie Nile, Otis Spann
    [as bandleader, rather than pianist for Muddy Waters, plus
    Three Pauls: Operatic Paul Robeson, Bassist PaulPaul Butterfield
    and a pleasing plethora of PATSY CLINE
    whom I like to think of as the closest thing
    Caucasians have ever produced to rival
    Billie Holiday

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  3. Doctor and patient—Raft and Oliverio—had secret deals
    with both China and Russia.
    Couldn't they both be arrested by the FBI?

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    1. Because Dr. Raft's father worked on the Moon Landing
      for Grummans and has his signature plaqued on the moon,
      two phenomenal gifts were guaranteed in perpetuity
      for his family:

      1. No one would ever get a traffic violation
      2. Criminal prosecution—regardless of the crime—
      could never be accomplished

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    2. But what about Oliverio?

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    3. After Paul's parents both died in 1971,
      he was unofficially "adopted" by the Raft family.

      Regarding the adoption, no official papers exist
      but all Raft family privileges were extended
      to him.

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