Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, March 29, 2014

I'd suggest a race

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   but we have one     It is sometimes a strategem   we can pursue, to tempt all   others with things we are   not tempted by...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Suppose it were Friday xcii: And one could get out soon

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    This portrait, possibly taken     backstage at Burberry, struck     me for an unrelieved incongru-     ity between the figure ...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

"I suppose you are clearing nettles at Eydon"

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When last we left our vigilant, cheery Conservatives, they were posturing in the yard, disposed upon a rifle muzzle for a shooting stick,...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Dep't of gentler pastimes

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     Look here, Johnny -   It says, the new Rolls   is not a 12. It's a pair   of 6's, super-charged,    with a...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

My kingdom for a Conservative

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Had we noticed, that when a Federal District Court in Richmond threw out Virginia's incongruous prohibition of matrimony for perso...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

And sometimes, a picture's just a picture

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        .. seeing nothing     yet mapping a lane in the brine       where Oedipus or Lear ...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

A dry martini can't be faked

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  In recent postings, it has been my     pleasure  to cite extracts from two    great peers of the  dry martini,    Lord Da...
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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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