Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Thorny, who is not especially Scandinavian

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  My English Cocker Spaniel   cannot be presented to il-   lustrate this announcement   of his attaining the age of   6...

Saturday commute lxxxiii: to the land of adorable distinctions

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Back again, to that world that it's not safe for us to understand, our arcane Court declared this week, compulsory self-incr...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Some days I think I will not think about the Roberts Court

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         Some days I think   I will ignore be-   ing the plaything   of casuists cons-   truing my humani-   ty. Some ...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Against pockets

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On the whole I look upon our hand-held devices as giving aid and comfort to the prac- tice of investigating one's  ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Syllabus

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    .. The coming rain     for rain. The boy to laugh and make     me chase him from the garden. The garden     for the m...
Monday, June 17, 2013

On a seasonal prevalence of unjust enrichment

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  His summer job of   washing cars gave   GĂ©rard the clear-   est impression of   how the larger  de-   nom inations flour- ...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Reading adirondackly

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Extract the day, they say: my pines are happy to give shelter, planks, and scent. I think I  said this as a child, comfy in thei...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Pricing sweaters, one by one

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   Their wearer hits   the shower, aware   of a gesture of ol-   factory compassion,   shrugging  get off,   alert, ...
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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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