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, September 7, 2024

This Bullet Bears Repeating ...

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Good artists borrow
Great artists steal
The best artists
are the ones 
most stolen from
***
Two English-language
writers for whom 
this is true

"Stealing" from Fitzgerald
requires stealth
 cunning and caution
because Great Gatsby's author
is a tad too famous
for some literary authority
to not notice
(unless he/she is the thief
or professor of same)
 
But the justifiable question is
Who the hell is 
Dawn Powell
 
To answer that question,
read any essay
and/or
 thank the late, great
Gore Vidal for unearthing 
her brilliant melange of
novels, short stories
and plays
 
He was also responsible 
for having her remains 
removed from Potter's Field
and given a proper burial
in Ohio, her birthplace
 
OR
 
Just read
from this anthology
and you will understand
why this page exists
***
 
 
The only thing that demands 
Oliverio's copyright attention
is the three bold lines
subsequent to
"Great artists steal" 
 
Anyone wanting to 
quote any other part 
of this page
to promote
the quintessentially
brilliant-but-forgotten
Dawn Powell
deserves my gratitude
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