Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, July 29, 2017

In the frame, clashing

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This page, which turns 7 today, is the same age I was in this portrait, in the frame in stripes be- hind the celebrant, aged 11 that d...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Code of the maverick

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Une vengeance trop prompte n'est plus une vengeance; c'est une riposte. Dream a while.  Scheme a while.             ...

Suppose it were Friday cxxvi: Is it good to be alive?

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If there's anything about the size of the risk pool that can subdue the costs of protection, it has two ways of going...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

And for Gauleiter of Greater Zirconia?

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The White House has allowed it to be known that the self-defrocked disciple of supply side stupidity, the Governor of Kansas,...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Delirium at dawn

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If only Olivier were on hand to see this. It is commonly understood, the government does not have a President, it has an en- tertaine...

Origins of Wednesday lv: Between day and evening

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The senior Senator from Arizona spoke to the Senate yesterday,  defying the norm of orations in that space, without an audie...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Perorations we've not lingered for

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       Numberless bents        Distinguish men.   If the poet is right,   an Act of distinction   is not what we're of-...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Between buildings and furniture

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     The things that never become part of the furniture belong to the way of life in being. Take the carrelet, the frag- ile,...
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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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