Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Tanning time

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   The tanning phase of  the      upholsterer's trade ad-    dresses the conditioning     of the pelt, before its  ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

In for a fix?

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      When is it safe to go online?   I'd finished my latest Wode-   house, an overlong thing that   frittered away its élan...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Pomegranate seeds abound

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     I have lots of acquaintances   who conceive of our world in   comestible terms, with the   consequence that to recommend   some...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Man with a twig

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As if certain algae that keep islands of skeletons alive, that make living rock from trash, from carcasses left behind by others, ...
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...
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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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