Red Mug, Blue Linen
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Just serve me more ice cream

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        .. than everybody else.   Worldwide, it has now become   apparent how to manipulate a   cranky little child. C...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Origins of Wednesday xlix: What are we reading?

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An enviable weekend estate, sited with long experience of the limits of the tides, open to the breezes and yet the comfy so...

Tanlines of the times

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We awoke this morning with the entire editorial page of the web edition of The New York Times given over to advocating the renunci- at...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Just a thought

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Wading through the amazing slosh of the overnight news from Washington this morn- ing, primarily in The Times and The Post, for the fir...

Canzonetta sull'aria

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         At the same time, when I          get home, I like to feel          I have slipped into soft          slippers, while tum...
Monday, May 15, 2017

On our brow this mark we bear

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                 And he wore a kingly crown;         And in his grasp a scepter shone;         On his brow this mark I saw --...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Accession to a republican Presidency

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    Strangely - even in many ways     today, exotically - enormous     executive power within a nu-     clear State in the ...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Saturday commute cxli: Red night and blue

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   He was country-shy and hardly looked my way,    just stepped onto the porch and talked to Dad    about the weather, Shoele...
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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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