Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Is a tough guy born

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   Or forged?             Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget             falls drop by drop upon the heart ...
Friday, November 13, 2015

None of our business, of course

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  Yet, just where are   these promised hordes   of miscreants, these   foreign-tainted inter-   lopers, leaping at   ou...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

And for my next trick

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          I think a pret-           ty wall, don't           you, that they           can pay for as           they...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

A call from David Ferry

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Mr Ferry has figured here repeatedly, as a transla- tor so gifted in the Clas- sics as to allow reliance  on him as if he were cox- sw...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Suppose it were Friday cviii: breaking free

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    Exactly when Thornhill broke    free of the 3-legged race of    what passes for politics, to    enact his own leaps of faith ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Ballots

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 Who was it, who  thought the in-  nocent wouldn't  also need to be  called?  From Houston to  Kentucky, inno-  cents were lost...

The grapes are off the vine in the Northern Hemisphere

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 and in Virginia,   we just got past  another election  day -  the one came too  soon, the other,  too late; but to  be over the su...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Blind chance

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   Over the weekend I did some    reading in the new Herodotus,    listened to half of Haydn's     Seasons, and watched a stun-   ...
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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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