The GoodFather of Math: Jimmy Durante & Auguste Rodin

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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 think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Jimmy Durante & Auguste Rodin

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Rodin's Thinker Had Me Thinkin'

Auguste Rodin's The Thinker (ArtDaily 5/29/14)

...about
something

Jimmy
Durante
said

that got
tattoed

inside my head!

Jimmy Durante

In 1961, there was an episode of a TV show
called Make Room For Daddy.

It featured Jimmy Durante & Danny Thomas
at an Art Museum.

Danny pointed to a statue and said
"That's Rodin's Thinker."

In his distinct nasal voice, Jimmy replied
"I know what he's thinkin' about.
He's thinkin' Where did I leave my clothes?"

Danny Thomas

The twelve year-old boy who was watching this show
with his parents & sisters, did not laugh as much as
the other people in the room.

But were he (a/k/a me) to not laugh
in the presence of Great Art,
half the GoodFather pages
could have ended up
in the same dump
as discarded
Marilyn
.
.
.
.

Art is forever and what is also true
it can help to add humor
to things you view.