Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, September 7, 2018

Unité d'habitation

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One always wonders about certain maxims in architecture, not least because of their power to arouse precisely that angle of imagina- ti...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

What goes around

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The lyric, ain't we got fun, can seldom have leapt so elatedly to the tongue, as it does on a day when the riotously w...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

If anyone edits The Washington Post anymore

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                    Send him a protocol sheet. The                     editorial pages are in the grip                     of hysteri...

Origins of Wednesday lxxviii: Counting on time

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I've had the same second thoughts as many about one's position in a society at tooth and nail with it- self over the ...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

In the spin

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   I have a twin who bears my name;    Bears it about with him in shame;    Who goes a way I would not go;    Has knowledge of th...
Monday, September 3, 2018

One could stay home

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       There's something about the   coincidence of encountering   a good story on the eve of   a national holiday (t...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

At least that's over

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The enormous advantage of the discipline of history, when compared with the com- pulsions of journalism, is that no one's ...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Saturday commute clvii: Camping alone

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     In a way, I suppose the sub-text      is the same strategem as hanging       out  on the sidewalk in the city,       b...
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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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