Red Mug, Blue Linen
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Homestead on Fifth Avenue

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The Henry Clay Frick of the Homestead strike is well em- bodied in his legacy gallery's scheme to deprive the people of New Yo...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Mother bid for me

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.. fluatque Lenis inoffenso vitaque   morsque gradu. .. and may life and death glide gently   on with unstumbling pace. The ...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Preserved lemons

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     As a child I could not get enough      lime pickle from India. So when in      Morocco I tasted preserved lemons      fo...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Supernova

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  When it came night,   the white waves   paced to and fro in   the moonlight, and   the wind brought   the sound of the great   sea...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Saturday commute xcvii: Innocuous migrations of the male

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           Hôtel Magnifique            Cannes,  France, A.M.   My Precious Dream-Rabbit,   I'm writing this on the ter-   ra...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Procession revisited: Scarpa and Paul Strand

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When I first saw Paul Strand's photograph of his boyhood back yard in the upper West Side of Manhattan, I failed to appreciate t...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Short lens, long bike

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                     Elections are like   that. You can make   them say anything. C...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Bring your voter I.D.

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     They will. Cy Twombly Tiznit 1953 Collection MoMA
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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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