Red Mug, Blue Linen
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Montale, Ashbery, in transit

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E andando ned sole que abbaglia sentire con triste meraviglia come'รจ tutta la vita e il suo   travaglio in questo seguitare una mura...
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Warbling voices

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to San Geronimo, par avion I imagine that we all get used to hearing some repeated epithet which sums up our circumstances.. Quiet is the o...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Shirtlifter for a cause

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Having been roundly upbraided, left and right, for a posting in the previous meridian which I confessed to be tedious, only to find it deba...
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Saturday commute viii

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We are absolutely and utterly completely not ready for this. We are so off-the-charts unready, that vertigo, which we don't know, threat...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Just a place

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places, mozartmozart glad faces, anonymous Palestrina Sanctus Missa Hodie    Christus Natus Est,  1575 Martin Baker Westmin...
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The seduction of boys ii

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Twenty-four hundred years ago, an 87-year-old man staged a play, on looking right into the eyes of a son of the gods, teaching him to embrac...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

D'you come here often?

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There it is. Dixie and its satrapies, throttling the nation again today, in eternal schadenfreude . The New York Times  portrays the failure...
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Who shall sew the first button?

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A crisis in conditioning of the young has reached the attention of even the President's wife. All about us, their upper trouser button i...
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Writing to a colleague in the 1930s, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli confessed, “I have done a terrible thing. I’ve postulated a particle that can not be detected.” Eventually, Pauli won the Nobel Prize for his Exclusion Principle, i.e., all material particles exhibit space-occupying behaviour - and could very well fall within the province of restaurants. I wonder if red mug, blue linen will be that terrible thing, a postulate without a particle - that a gentleman is only that creature whose nourishment occupies no space. But whether that is true, is less urgent to know than where it comes from.
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