Red Mug, Blue Linen
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Ted's weird enough in the Senate

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      I shouldn't        like  to run        into him  in        his atelier.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

not forgetting

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..                                          release in me the secret purpose I tasted deeply outside time,            so ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

new book in print

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Patrick Leigh-Fermor's literary executors have consummated his agreement with John Murray, pub- lishers, to bring to life a f...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

There's a country in the world that keeps wanting us to go to war

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         On a better-late-than-never          reading of history, a nation          we all favour commends war          t...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Summer Liebling iv: And you thought catamarans were degenerate

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            One had only to be   in Florida to wit-   ness the decline of   stealing second, af-   ter Ty Cobb had set...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

A young man, traveling in Italy, writes to me of his passion

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They are still making my mistakes, I find, yet I've seamlessly declared, without false valour, that they were marvelous...

Poverty's a little different from just not finding work

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Poverty no longer rising  but grips  46,000,000. The New York Times   yesterday's date Even feudalism is ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

If this had been a real emergency

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    This is just a test     of our hierarchical     hygienic system.     If this had been a     real emergency, you ...
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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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