Red Mug, Blue Linen
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Beneath his luminous eyes, people were troubled by Sheridan's face

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The man who stepped out onto the street was of medium height, broad-shouldered, and well-built, giving the impression of bein...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Tidying up

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Over the weekend, we all  had the opportunity to see  Mr Ross Douthat declaring,   in The New York Times -- everyone ...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

Passover

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      This danger lurking everywhere       has created new complicities,       new tenderness, new solidarities.       Be...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Passing by the windows of The Times last evening

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Alito, as is his wont, advances an impertinent relationship of the Court to society, in suggesting it is the business of th...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Anticipating Easter

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    I learned that whoever would root out     Hate must celebrate the brave.             I can swear by gods that the Dawn...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

"It dawned on me .."

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  Some of the most dan-   gerous words in the   English language, all   strung together in a   phrase warning pleas- ...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Saturday commute lxxviii: exploring vintages

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        A little disarray         is a modest price         to pay for under-         standing. ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Open stacks and closed

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The Bibliothèque Nation-ale is a subject of cur-rent discussion at New York's Museum of Modern Art. This is especially ti...
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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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