Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Cannon, loose

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   ..                      But it's the having    not the keeping that is the treasure.    Ginsberg came to my house ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Gérard barred from Roland Garros

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No dogmatic adherent of the  Fall of Man school of sartor- ial policing, himself -  remembered by us all, in fact,...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Last week, on the 29th, 100 years ago in Paris

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We might have remarked as we passed a bold centennial with some concession to its mean- ing, but we find that a con- se...
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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Saturday commute lxxxii: tossing time

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What is more difficult, to make too much or too little of the tried and true temptation to give tossings to a lake? On ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Suppose it were Friday lxx: becoming the field

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Mr Nathaniel Perry teaches at a distinguished small college in Virginia and he is an artist in the medium of the book. I note, a num- ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Gaining trust

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I agree .. that homosexuality is usually a miserable way of life and that it is the duty of society, if it can, to save any youth from ...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

An open pander to the southern hemisphere

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Having only yesterday celebrated the seersucker season, I mean to inflict no more than routine dis- orientation upon the frie...

Tree, casting

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  ..   The way they quiver   At the slightest breath of wind,   The way they thrill,   And shudder almost individually,   One of t...
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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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