Red Mug, Blue Linen
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Salutary rituals and the other kind

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Sunday seems as good a day as any, don't you suppose, to ponder the problem of the eerily metabolic propensity of this po...
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Saturday, July 9, 2016

Saturday commute cxxix: Visiting aunts

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   The day my father stayed in bed  Aunt said  Ann  send the boy out  but I said father said  he would teach me to tickle t...
Friday, July 8, 2016

Water Melon & Delon

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     Services so bespoke,      one knows not to ask        and mango bloomers    nobody knows about    either ...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Summer politics

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Problems of political philosophy are best un- derstood if the margin- al cases are clearly stated.      In the afternoon I wa...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

The forest for the trees, anyone?

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I trust this page has made its im- pressions of Mrs Clinton's inter- esting history clear enough, for us to venture a q...

Buying pictures vi

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   I would enjoy walking endlessly upon the sand,         if the windy course         of an almost Irish remorse    did not imitate you,...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Where satirists are called to Heaven

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      And should your conscience tell you       that Mr. Trump might not be the right       choice, Robert Jeffress, t...
Monday, July 4, 2016

First Monday in July

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       I still don't think   anything ever so sur-   prises me as when a    random highlight   scratches so I ca...
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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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