Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, June 29, 2013

You really can't say, I hadn't warned you, Martin

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    It just had always seemed     too obvious to me, Martin,     that if we were to engage     in other people's cond...
Friday, June 28, 2013

We had been having, I do remember this, extremely strange weather

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   It would not have    been reasonable    to have held any-    one to account,    even if one could    have predicted ...

Suppose it were Friday lxxi: becoming the field ii

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  And man, that noble insect, restless man   Whose thoughts scale heaven in its mighty span,   Pours forth his living soul in many a ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

They give you no points for a summer cold ii

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The expedient of the semi- permanent handkerchief, as- sociated as much with hos- pital protocols as it is with Lord Tenn...

They give you no points for a summer cold

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They give a fellow no points for writing about his summer cold. Now, I know, having ut- tered this complaint, one or mo...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Reflections in suspense

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I believe there are greater human rights than matrimony, which is after all  a social convention, revolting as it may ...
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Your rolling river

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             When Lyndon Johnson quit,       the entire edifice of na-       tional madness shook with    ...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Sourdough rises

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From yeasts borne on the air. Not that we'd be making the same mistake, necessarily. Somebody estim- ated that the devices, ...
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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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