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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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

The Best Kept Secret Of Two Great American Authors

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It is gross understatement
to say that
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mastered the art
of
Crime Fiction
 
What is not commonly known 
about both American Authors
is that each was privileged enough
—as a toddler—
to have an British nanny
who eschewed traditional
bed time reading
of stories such as
Goldilocks
or
 The Three Little Pigs
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What the nanny read instead was
two novels by 
Dashiell Hammett:
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Parents of both toddlers
were unduly impressed
with how agreeably
the toddlers were
for bedtime 
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The British nanny
would sometimes read for
as long as two hours
but 
many characters created by
spoke in "slang"
that was perfectly recreated
by a nursemaid from
across the pond
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© OLIVERIO ©
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2 comments:

  1. Whatever became of those British nannies?

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    1. Supposedly one of them became a successful banker
      and the other became an even more successful
      gun moll

      -Oliverio

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