Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, September 12, 2014

Suppose it were Friday xcviii: guest room commotions

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Recently, I was struck by your post concerning Han-nah Arendt, which led me to your other posts de-voted to  The Kindly Ones. It i...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Concertgoers

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     The President spoke    of the distribution    of blessings on his    nation as requiring    war, as obligations    ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

A surprising flourish of dignity

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     I think it bears remembrance,      that the Apple board deposed      Steve Jobs, himself. Bankers      are th...
Monday, September 8, 2014

With heartbreak, fury and resolution

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    If I were an architect, art     historian, interior design-     er, or such as I am, pedes-     trian subscriber to...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

I can't escape camp too soon

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       I've been squinting so long   through a lanyarded bong my    brows have woven a ligature   while under this sway I can ...

Is taste a human right iii

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  Am I alone in resorting to prose   from the kitchen, when I wish to   experience clarity? I wasn't dis-   paraging Philo...
Saturday, September 6, 2014

Saturday commute xciv: An awkward shortage for stairs

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    What will fashion think of     next, in those cyclic sac-     rifices we're compelled to     make to its shifting sands  ...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Course correction

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  Frank O'Hara at   a rail station.   Fifty years ago   for the summer.   We left Federal   Court yesterday   not sombe...
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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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