Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Saturday commute xi

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When one thinks of all the Royal Navy has en-dured, in its endless volleys of the sun to as-sure that it never sets beneath Greenwich's ...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Capriole for a Greek

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rosé with sautées
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Cabriolet for a tenor

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Now it has this density of aubergine, with the same perfected black for the bonnet and boot. The more for keeping. Nobody yields anym...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Have we discussed frogs legs at the Blue Fox?

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In blogging there seems to be a readership-writership tendency toward sybaritic indulgence which, I fear, is better embarrassed by confessio...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

One degree of latitude divides San Francisco

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from Charlottesville, Virginia This beach will remain empty for more slate-coloured dawns of lines the surf continually erases with its spo...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Foraging, I sometimes pause

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As Homer more than anticipated, sometimes the chronicle of mortal destruction, brooking no reluctance, encounters a caesura as the thread...
Monday, January 3, 2011

You remember, I think, Harold Abrahams?

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Well, there's your Semite, Hugh. John Gielgud's summary line on the treachery of private coaching, as Master of Caius in Chari-ot...

There is another Caldicott and Charters

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I know. It's a little as if one had heard there'd been another holiday declared, smack in the middle of the longest month in the Nor...
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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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