Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Saturday commute cxlii: all set

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       Likes new stories?         Check.        Likes old stories?         Check.        Likes stories?         Not esp...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Suppose it were Friday cxxiv: Seasonable theatre

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Of all the democratic dramas we've seen emergent in our tweety little amphitheatres, yesterday's in Washington so cleared the ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Thursday treasures i: To have and have not

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In a classic American story of his -  which he rated, abysmal - Hemingway engaged one character to in quire of  another, how he wen...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Ah, yes. Repudiation Wednesday.

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You see, for some years, a quiet little cornerstone of the United States' adventures, both on and off the books of budget...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Tuesday story straightening

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Have you dared to glimpse the papers today?  Neither have I. But as ad hoc patterns in  the contradictory explet-ive...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Why are these men smiling?

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           Call it the Global     Spring.  All that's     left are peoples     who aren't fright- ...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Having to stop a government

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Not since that invasion, announced histrionically as not an invasion , of Cambodia in 1970, have Americans felt so close to their nat...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Narcissistic foreplay

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Don't we all just love it: the American President's re- nowned sense of the exquis- ite (last exhibited by his dau...
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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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