Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, October 19, 2018

Suppose it were Friday clxv: What is its frame?

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Almost any movement, captured, is from some perspective, a race against time. I think the race is a reluctance to part with t...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Fingers first, memory last

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                 A friend wrote in the other day, reminding one that politics play only a part. At the...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

A singspiel for our times

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Now that our fabulist President has dispatched his Secretary of State to concoct a libretto for an abduction from an Ott...
Friday, October 12, 2018

You will grow up to be marvelous

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A couple of predators, not always our favorite character, especial- ly given how they stack the odds, and prey without any li...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Melting sovereignty

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To many of us, the gathering data of unwonted volatility and degrad- ation in the planet's climate re- main no more than ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Origins of Wednesday lxxxii: What is one to do with this?

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I'm not very happy with how well the New American Government out- fought all resistance in the el- evation of its obvious perjurer- ...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Younger's not so bad

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So the demagogues give us more to do, because they truly can do nothing else. Which would you have: bore- dom like that, or...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

What happened to you?

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Oh, nothing, thank you for asking. I'd say, let's not talk a bout it.  Who hasn't noticed, exhibiting ban- dages...
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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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