Red Mug, Blue Linen
Thursday, April 30, 2015

I don't mind the plates so much

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    It's the clank they     make, that wears on     one.     Gone for a few days.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

"Pangs of death and pangs of birth"

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Over an entrance to the quadrangle of the Yale School of Law, one can make out an inscription carved al- most a century ago. The l...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Choatie in a room with Shaw

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      I'm gettin' married          in the morning       Ding, dong, the bells          are gonna chime       Pull ou...
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Monday, April 27, 2015

427 Only Avenue

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  Unlike, say, Bertrand Russell,  who turned to philosophy with  hope of finding certainty where  previously he had felt only...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Happy Birthday, Handsome

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1889-1951     A man will be imprisoned in a room     with a door that's unlocked and o-     pens inwards, as long as it does ...

Plane sensibility

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  I think of Ozu   and of ValĂ©ry    Lorenzo, such   elegant and   penetrating   masters of the   plane in visu-   a...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

This is ANZAC Day

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Gallipoli Peninsula       You stand up, but I get there      first and lift the child up..      This is my heart, and there is  ...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Suppose it were Friday civ: In for a £ ?

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Why, indeed, should the Left have all the fun; and even then, what's ever been fun a- bout commanding a majority? It...
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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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