Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Ikiru

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I saw grief, misunderstanding and more than one old revolt dividing us in the dark. The hand I wouldn't kiss, the crumb that...

What did she see iii

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                I had been hungry, all the Years -                 My Noon had Come - to dine -                 I trembling drew...
Friday, May 20, 2016

We go home now iii

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In less than an hour from Telegraph Hill, one can be in a federally protected landscape, precisely like this. This week, the ...

Suppose it were Friday cxiv: Turn, turn, turn

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Time to be prosaic. On Tuesday, the Place de la République flooded, with youth calling upon the Center-Left government they had ...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Why do I so love Saul Leiter

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For one thing, I seem to be unfashion- able.  Ascending the stairs one evening  at my  club at Princeton, an upper-class- man...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Origins of Wednesday xxix: The placard forest

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And this man. What does he now seem like, to you? Like a child   who has wandered into a   forest Playing with an imaginary ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Hello, Portland

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       my old friend     Paris Opera Ballet François Rude   Mercury   Palais du Louvre 18...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Oregon, Kentucky

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    There is always voting  being done,     in a free society, but balloting     this year will shortly shift from     voti...
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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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