Red Mug, Blue Linen
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The thread that runs through Summer

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An American boy is all an Amer-ican boy is ever going to be. Not that this can get us off the hook of reading James and Eliot on the fut...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Sunday morning with Stevens

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      It is agreeable to think       of the poet as a whole       biological mechanism and       not as a subordinate mech-      ...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

In case you need to

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     wake me,      when you      come in?
Friday, August 1, 2014

Who knew, our spooks were smokers?

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  The ruin that constantly threat-   ens  them is all the blacker be-   cause they  only doubtfully 'be-   long'. A duke wh...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Mountains as they rise ii

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"Immobility," the petrol-rationed scholar wrote, "has its advantages," and they are not denied to any so- cial isola...

Mountains as they rise

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  Friends said, No, skip the Carven show.   It's all about the street. What use is   that to you?   I remembered then, seeking P...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Lifeguard not on duty

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     Possibly we've all seen the Russian      people endure privation under author-      itarians enough, not to join our pa-      p...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

The weight of the absolute world, of course, impinged

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   Have you been stranded on Paros    in the middle of an engraver's    strike, when you had to get the    place cards ...
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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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