Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Erin go bragh!

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     He came back to the sofa. He lifted   MacMurrough's wine and silently gave   it into his hand. They listened to   the ...

Shall we have Gail Collins or lose this day after all

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    Like you, I'll do anything     to avoid one of our Satur-     day commute postings, but     I was prepared to go ahea...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

A little bit of war

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        Have we all been keeping up         with the Mission Accomplish-         ed, so many years ago, now,         that we've all ...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Margaretta Fitler Murphy Rockefeller

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My memory of this lady began when I was a young boy, an exceedingly unprecocious ad- olescent by today's standard. I remember her w...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Dutifully padding about the temples of gastronomy

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      And yet she loved all things        French, loved being in France.       When we went there en famille       after the war sh...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Dutifully padding about the temples of Impression

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     Is travel then the mirage where      the real self itself becomes mi-      rage ..? When we are in Rome or      Athens, do they eva...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Dutifully padding about the temples of Persepolis

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      2 March 1935      Dear Dr Herzfeld          Since both the Governor      of Fars and Dr Mostafavi have      stated categoricall...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Dutifully padding about the temples of Mt Athos

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    Woke up this morning, the weight     of my twenty years heavy upon me,     wondering how many people at home     were wishing me man...
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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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