Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Saturday commute xc: bad proceedings on shore

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Koloa felt some of the aftershock that turned Honolulu and Lahaina in- to places of decadence, but it was no overwhel- ...
Friday, October 4, 2013

What to do when the catamarans have passed

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    if you have     to ask, you     don't sail.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

The papers are full of talk of "no negotiations taking place"

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      That's like poor       Wolfgang Pauli's       imagining a par-       ticle beyond de-       tection. The ...

The report of St Mark

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        As he were a tree,         walking, with what         should he collide? ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Gulping Dickens in my youth

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   I used - very reasonably,    I think - to surmise that    all injustice could well    be laid at the door of a    hars...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

I asked my bookseller what to read without a government

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I did, but I asked her also why she didn't of- fer valet parking, so buried is her shop in a cobbled mews. Admit- tedly, ...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Just another outing in the sun

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  Just another fugitive,   just another shadow    trailing callouses.
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.
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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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