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The previous post, "Ask a Stupid Question," 
suggests some vocabulary review —

Let's not forget the slash ("rift," in the terminology of
the previous post) separating numerator from denominator.

See Separatrix in this journal.

… Continued .

Compare and contrast yesterday's quotation from Jeffrey Kipnis
with the following quotation from Robert Bringhurst —

Related material — Jews on Style.

Separatrix  and  Mulligan

An image from this journal on September 16, 2013:

Mulligan:

“A mulligan, in a game, happens when a player gets a second chance
to perform a certain move or action.” — Wikipedia

New York Times  obituary for Richard Mellon Scaife:

“He had the caricatured look of a jovial billionaire promoting ‘family values’
in America: a real-life Citizen Kane with red cheeks, white hair, blue eyes and
a wide smile for the cameras. Friends called him intuitive but not intellectual.
He told Vanity Fair  his favorite TV show was ‘The Simpsons,’ and his favorite
book was John O’Hara’s  Appointment in Samarra , about a rich young
Pennsylvanian bent on self-destruction.” — Robert D. McFadden

Click image below for some nuclear family values in memory of Scaife:

See also the previous post,
Core Curriculum.