Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Saturday commute lxxix: manhunt

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     I crawled off through       the grass  and rushes       on the far bank, and      bolted for home. I am       not ...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Suppose it were Friday lxix: a little salt spray

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                to season our           surveillance,           particles re-           porting where           we ar...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

In the last election, Democrats increased their majority

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       .. in the Repub-        lican-controlled         Senate.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

In the countryside of Virginia, the quorum of spring calves

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infallibly does rally to investigate a play- mate

Passing by the windows of The Post last evening

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We did see an international  sporting event in the United  States marred by tragedy in  the last couple of days, but  it ...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Boston

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            They come together again,       the luminous swift hand over the slow       .. ...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Sunday with Charles Simic

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My Secret Identity Is   The room is empty,   And the window is open Jacket photo Do...
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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...
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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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