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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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Curvature + Prophecy From RING LARDNER

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RING LARDNER
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2 comments:

  1. The last three pages exist only because
    —in the process of photographing the Beatles video—
    I accidentally added 2000 images
    to my iPhoto folder

    -Oliverio

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  2. Before you can say
    I know Ring Lardner: he created MASH,
    you would be only half-correct because "Ring Lardner Jr."
    dropped the Jr. from his name before he created
    the fabled movie/television series.

    Three things about the Lardner residence
    in Great Neck, New York:

    1. The backyard was big enough for a baseball field.

    2. Junior was often told stories
    by their next-door neighbor,
    the very inebriated Scott Fitzgerald.

    3. Junior was featured in his father's humor columns
    as a boy named "Bill."
    Together, the Lardners became the role models
    for Calvin and Hobbes

    -Oliverio

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