Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, April 14, 2017

Aqueous invention of film

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It is often said, and not with lack of judgment, that the ul- timate entrance by any charac- ter in cinema was the one Lean craft...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Origins of Wednesday xlvii: Close, apart

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      Nietzsche said the poem is a dance       In chains. Molecular life enchained by chance?       The bonds of atoms formulas dist...
Monday, April 10, 2017

A participle, nowadays

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a word formed from a verb and no long- er seen as a verb, as in guy reading.    All through the fifties and sixties the land ti...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

Sunday stroll

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   quiet leftovers         Isabel Colegate The Shooting Party Viking Press, 1981© ...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Saturday commute cxxxix: Between nonsense and neglect

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Some time ago I recommended the  private compilations and published musings, of David Cecil; and I find them an inexhaustib...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Depending in part on definition

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   With due respect, it never    fails to help to know what    the antecedent of it  might    be. Authorities are inc...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

The petulant, the easy call

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A shower of cruise missiles, inflict- ing negligible, gratuitous damage, à la mode of Bush league shock and awe - degradation, we...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

The sketch, the ship, the afternoon

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     It's like him, of course,   this little pencil portrait.   Hurriedly sketched, on the ship's deck,   the afternoon ma...
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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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