Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Saturday commute cxxvii: Once more into the brief

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Who knew, the bright American latrine would come not merely to typify the nation's discourse in the great quad- rennial sp...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

We go home now ii

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    Don Mills and Jerry     Kahn with ice boxes     Santa Monica hills,     completely accurate Edmund Teske ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Origins of Wednesday xxiv: Chute

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    I think it will be a long time     before such a portrait doesn't     recall Jake Gyllenhaal in wait     for his br...
Monday, April 11, 2016

The old shirts ii

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Kelly's art was the art of the flâneur, but of the flâneur who was immersed in his own empyrean imagination and dis- ...
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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Saturday commute cxxvi: Out of the fire

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Friends possess great latitude with me, to inquire in the nos- iest way, provided they accept the risk of a querying absorp- ...
Friday, April 8, 2016

The old shirts

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 I put one on, the  other day, a pin-  point cotton wov-  en in Glasgow and  fashioned by tail-  ors in New Jersey,  ab...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

We go home now

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   Now this . To save their    soul they say they need     Ted Cruz.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Origins of Wednesday xxiii: Recourse

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    Whenever skies look gray to me     And trouble begins to brew     Whenever the winter winds become too strong ...
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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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