Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, August 22, 2014

Before the cloying, tepid hand of equality descends

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         Lock the      elevator.     
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Rehearsing a Virginia marriage

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  With scarcely a moment to spare,   America's terminal panel of jur-   ists (it's hard to think of them   as ultimate or ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Origins of Wednesday vi: messenger at the door

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  Der Rosenkavalier  and I   do not go back very far.   Possibly, to Blanche in   Streetcar, being led a-   way, but the...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Palestine, English, on the road

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      It was so long ago,       they called it the       Protectorate. This       was shot yesterday. ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Listening at the Monteleone vi

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Under the seams runs the pain. Panic jumped down on Geryon at three a.m. .. He hugged his overcoat closer and tried to assembl...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Blow that past me one more time

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    It's very easy to believe   one wasn't yet alive, the   night they invented cham-   pagne , but it's hard not   t...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

I know now what I saw

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  A large white yacht was coming into the harbor and seven miles out in the horizon you could see a tanker, small...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Keel up

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          Topicality, George Smiley remarks      to Control, is always suspect. If      anything bears him ou...
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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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