Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Saturday commute cvii: And weren't we all, somehow, mistaken

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   Those skeptics among us,    that is, who doubted our    mass transit systems' a-    bility to generate pres-    t...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Head count

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    Heading into another     American election cy-     cle, we prepare to     count the innocents     who still take their ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

A cup on the run

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    The high pool is     always steaming.     What witch will     rise up on the     white sunset?     What purple fo- ...
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 ...
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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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