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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Friday, June 5, 2015

The Anonymous Sanctified Cleanser

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A restorer cleans the statues representing clerics

on the pediment of the royal door, built in 1250,

at the Pey-Berland cathedral, in Bordeaux

AFP PHOTO / Jean-Pierre Muller

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Quoting Flaubert (The Book Of Gus #6)

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I am only a literary lizard basking the day away
beneath the great sun of Beauty.

If I were a woman, I wouldn’t want myself for a lover.
A one-night stand, yes; but an intimate relationship, no.

I laugh at everything, even at that which I love the most.

There is no fact, thing, feeling or person over which
I have not blithely run down my clownishness,
like an iron roller imparting sheen to cloth.

The day I stop being indignant, I shall fall flat on my face.

There are moments when I am so tired
that I’m liquefying like an old Camembert.

This bird is not a parrot

All of the quotes

from Gustave Flaubert

appear in Flaubert's Parrot,

a Julian Barnes novel.

The next Flaubert page is here.

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The Romantic Poet And The Modern Poet

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Each poet prepared a candle-lit dinner for the woman in his life.

Both poets are inspired by the sparkle of the evening
and the glow in their lady’s eyes.

Both dinners are commemorated with poetry.

When hearts beat together, the muses listen.

The romantic poet writes his verse on a napkin
and immediately gives it to his lover.

The modern poet scribbles his poem on a Post-it in the pantry.

Tomorrow, he will write a polished draft on his computer
and then e-mail it to his lady.

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Footnote
THE ROMANTIC POET AND THE MODERN POET is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Imagine Spray-Painting The Long Side Of A Truck...

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Then someone buys the painting for $690,000

That actually happened in Paris this week.

However, that amount includes the auctioneer's fee.

The rest of the moolah goes to Banksy,
an artist who has never been seen in public
but long may he (or she) live!

The next GoFather
Banksy page
is here.

Art Daily

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Photoverio © (#102): The Last Rendezvous?

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We can't go on meeting like this.

I think someone is telling us to stop.

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PENINSULA, paper and pencil...

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Is the portrait that you see

Peninsula is owned by the peninsulators

Paper and pencil are owned by me.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Mrs. CarPeo's Watch List

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I cannot go
When blocked

I need to know
Simple things
He says no

The mime is dressed
Like a red toro
With mood to match.

An alternate batch
of words he'll hatch.

Watch...

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Photoverio © (#101): Self-Portrait Through The Looking Glass

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With forked eyes

there is surprise

Beyond spatula nose

a tree grows

Knotted wood horns–

the red frame scorns

the sad telephone pole

wants a bigger role:

wishing for thrills

of penetrating

unseen nostrils

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......................A Simon and Garfunkel Song For Carol......................

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Someone told me
It's all happening

At The Zoo

I do believe it, I do believe it's true.

It's a light and tumble journey

From the East Side to the park.

Just a fine and fancy ramble to the zoo.

but you can take the cross-town bus

If it's raining or it's cold.

And the animals will

love it if you do.

Let it be told:

An animal activist is she.

The evidence:

Exhibit A is me.

Andy Warhol's 1959 Recipe Book

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Artist: Andy Warhol
Text: Suzy Frankfurt
Lettering: Julia Warhola
(Andy's Mother)

Do the hyperlinky thing
and learn all about it!

I refuse to touch up the white spots
in the image above
out of fear that Andy's ghost
will never visit me again!

The next Warhol page is here.

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NET-Speak (The Book Of Gus #5)

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© Oliverio
The text is from
Julian Barnes

The subject of the biography
is Gustave Flaubert

Our BOOK OF GUS
continues here.

With no great injury to logic,
you could define a net as

A collection of holes
tied together
with string.

You can do the same
with a biography:

A trawling net fills,
then the biographer
hauls it in, sorts,
throws back,
stores, fillets
and sells.

Mystification is simple.
Clarity is the hardest
thing of all.
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Monday, June 1, 2015

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We can say all
we want about Him.
But if we don't offer Him
our hands, they can do
serious harm....Unless
we use those hands
to reach out to each
other, regardless
of how we feel
about Him

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I Will NEVER Stop Quoting Dawn Powell

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Dawn Powell
(1896-1965)

This quote is from
Come Back To Sorrento

A film version
is "in development"

The next Dawn Powell page

is here.

One needn’t

know poetry,

it was loving it

that was important.

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Question: What Is The Sixth Sense?

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The Sixth Sense is a SENSE OF HUMOR
without which the Original Five
need a retirement plan.

This answer is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

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The Curators Of The G-Block Museum (The Book Of Gus #4)

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It was a gloomy morning
It was an eye patch morning
But I am never in mourning
I am never in gloom

When the words of Flaubert
Enter the room:

There is not
a particle of life
which does not bear
poetry within it.

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