Red Mug, Blue Linen
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Joseph Biden and the end of choice

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  One almost cannot bear to glance   at the superficiality of remarks   in print at the moment, on the   causes and consequences of Joe ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Red horizon

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   But why was Pentheus there?    He went to mock the gods,    and your rituals.    But we - why were we there?    You were out of y...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Saturday commute cxiv: finders keepers

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What we like about this game, and have every reason to believe, Hera-clitus figured out, is that the trouvaille doesn't so...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Arms and the man

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  Kandinsky in Dessau   between the wars,    Walter Gropius, ar-   chitect.   I've been neglect-   ing my reading a- ...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Plate smears

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I was delighted to run into a Mourvèdre from the Domaine Tempier, last Sunday after- noon outdoors, on what would best have been...
Friday, October 9, 2015

Exchanging a word

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I read in the morning papers of a proposal to update the text of Shakespeare, and saw the thought dismissed as a waste of time. What...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Autumn prism

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I agreed to join a friend for lunch outside today, of truite amandine and haricots verts, and we settled on a Loire Valley Pinot Noir...
Monday, October 5, 2015

To be truthfully told

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A Dijonnais schoolboy rips off Charlie Parker LP's during the siege of Dien Bien Phu, and ac- cedes, against all odds, to his ...
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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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