Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, May 24, 2014

As every soldier is unknown

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  A generation will pass   before the sky will be   perfectly clear of   clouds for his shining.   However, what's a gen-  ...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Now that we are all assimilating Larry Kramer

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The cultural whale is full, these days, of notable bits of Larry Kra- mer, Ahab of homophile New York be- fore there was a whiff of HIV,...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Annals of cognitive revulsion: Wes Anderson for American Express

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The mind makes it hazardous to take a holiday, especially if one yields to the temptation, as I've been doing, to resume conta...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Saturday commute cvii: Baccalaureate advice of our chum

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The other day, the estimable Tim Egan, one of the few col- umnists condemned to recom- mendation in our Context , offered an att...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Suppose it were Friday xcv: the last morels

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     If it were up to me, one would not      harvest the last morels. They hide      to allow for this discretion, even   ...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Origins of arrest

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   The young man's movements,    however, betrayed no con-    sistency of attention -    not even, for that matter,    when one of ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Another turnstile turned

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We turned another turnstile in vis-its to rmbl yesterday, at lunch-time. One of those meaningless yet diverting milestones which assail...
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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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