Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, June 29, 2012

Friday firebreak i

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One likes to be down there at dawn. It can cauterise the week and steel the day with something impregnably perfect. ...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Nice work when you can get it, Mr Chief Justice

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Who knew? Photography  Steve Pyke The New Yorker ©
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Is there a passing scene?

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Is there a passing scene, and which came first (the scene of passage) and if so what could that have been? Right now ...
Monday, June 25, 2012

"Go sit down and wait to be examined."

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I have lately become very interested in tidepool effects which the drap- ing of a T shirt can recall in some lightings, as...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Portrait from a marriage: matching the profession to the estate

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Mirth - not an experience so often associated with Graham Greene as it is with mascul- ine disappointment in our Age of Bob Dol...
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Friday, June 22, 2012

We all know people who absolutely must have a tan

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We do know such people. I can't recall if I were ever one of them, or if I simply reasoned one had to be exhibited, and acquired co...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

I did not miss our most beautiful Spring

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I wish I could have commemorated it better; the season was very fine in the Piedmont this year, and this is less usual than l...
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Is taste a human right?

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This posting was originally issued May 25th and was taken down for revision. A friend was asking for it lately, and allowed that it was ...
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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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