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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Sunday, March 24, 2024

Mandatory ATWOODing For Anyone Putting Pen To Paper

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A ratio of failure is built into
the process of writing.
The wastebasket has evolved
for a reason.
Think of it as the altar of
the Muse Oblivion.

To whom you sacrifice 
your botched first drafts,
the tokens of
your human imperfection.

She is the tenth Muse
without whom
the others cannot function.
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Nine Beginnings
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2 comments:

  1. This ATWOOD quote is consistent with your very first "bullet."
    The more you write, the more you need a weedwhacker.

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    1. I truly appreciate your comment
      but feel obligated to note that I created
      the "Weedwhacker Bullet" a dozen years before
      I ever read Ms. Atwood

      -Oliverio

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