Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Saturday commute cxiii: Resisting plaidfully

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   We concur:    kick back.    If we don't     tell  Satur-    day  what to     do, it will    soon enough    tell ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

What it looked like

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   Sliver of the    moon through    the woods down    here,    I'm not sure    if we were    meant to see .    Every star    ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Origins of Wednesday xvii: Love? Love what?

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       When you are philoso-    phising, you have to    descend into primeval    chaos, and feel at    home there.          We...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Yes, I see

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  We don't have any   opening just now.        I'm not here for       what you have; I       am here for what       I...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

So now you're at Yale: the provenance question

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I suppose, it is a feature of age, not merely to sympathise more than is welcome, with the trials of the present, but to perceive ...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

In their time

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Exhalation mattered a whole lot.   People talk of situations   Read books, repeat quotations   Draw concl...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Take a bow, Harry

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The many rent the skies with loud applause, yes- terday, as Senator Reid held his caucus togeth- er with adroit exploita- tion of disr...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Does anybody know if we actually need a badger brush?

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   All right. I don't    really care, either.    But Gail Collins is    back, and there are     going to be quizzes.      ...
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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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