Profundity 101

Kurt Vonnegut is cynically wonderful. I am reading “A Breakfast of Champions” and seem to find deep meaning in every paragraph — whether he intended them to be “deep” or not I don’t know! An excerpt:

The son of man

[caption id=”attachment_164" align=”alignnone” width=”225" caption=”The Son of Man”]

[/caption]

Drawn by the Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte, whose 110th birth anniversary is today. About the painting, Magritte says:
“ At least it hides the…

Tribute

November 4th was a momentous occassion. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award given by the Government of India. The people of India finally recognize a living legend. Here is an example of his extraordinary ability. This excerpt is from the Harballabh Mela of 1957 — India’s…

A Joke!

“An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two ”

Thanks, Sports!