Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Shadwell Stair

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Shadwell is Thomas Jefferson's father's estate, now notable as a filling station at a glossy planned unit development of er- sa...

Horace at your back vii: only one thing

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      You occupy the nest; I praise      the brooks of the lovely coun-      tryside, its woodland and rocks      overgrown with moss. ...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Short conversations in July

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     Pinkie and Gooey      are giving us a      dinner dance at      Piping Rock, and       you're  taking me.      ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Origins of Wednesday v: fortune's pivot point

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    What turns its face too soon, too late. J.D. McClatchy Hazmat: Poems   In the...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

New experiences

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  I enjoyed a salad of Summer peaches yester- day, right in front of a guy who's always cit- ing that line from E...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Does anybody want the story on Gaza?

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Should not a posting on the eternal debaucheries in the sacredly contested niche be- tween good and evil, find a way of...

Mortal open secrets written down

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   Thus, in the choice of a    Devil, it hath been the    usual Method of Mankind,    to single out some being,    either in Act, of in...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

How does Putin differ from Reagan?

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    With Putin, it     was unintended.    It would be unseemly now    to enrich our umbrage b...
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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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