Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Familiar dispersals of the day

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    ..     Now as the great paunch of this earth     Allows its punctuation by seeds, some to be     Trees, some men walking as trees, ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Grappling with our season's luxury

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 Content to the mind, says the great  Halifax, is as moss to a tree; it  binds up so as to stop its growth.  And Hobbes complai...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Arraigned on Thursday

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   Back again, are we?    And what is it this    time?
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Eyes on Mississippi

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  Like you, I find that   the ratio of Missis-   sippians among my cor-   respondents is extra-   aordinarily high. They ...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Interiors Sunday

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This portrait, drawn from   Spindle magazine, astounds one with a thou- sand memories of pursuits in life's interiors b...
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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Saturday commute cix: Catching up with policy

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It was a slow day And the sun was beating On the soldiers by the side of the road There was a bright light A shattering of sh...
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Friday, June 20, 2014

How is our darling Dick like yesterday's fashion prince?

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 D'you have a mode of  covering up that's ty-  ing you in knots? To  precipitate a frock  you can't escape, re-  s...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Cornstarch, milk, and London's Springtime moment

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  Our paper of record sent a man  to London's lightly covered in-  troduction of menswear sugges-  tions, and took th...
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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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