Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, February 9, 2019

A Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet

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The handiest answer to the diminished popularity of a caffè con panna, is the  tautological one, fashion.              ...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Suppose it were Friday clxix: A very good light for Volnay

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  Here you will find a poor but beau-   tifully exposed, very stony, reddish   soil of Bathonian origin on a rocky   base, on...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Will the beautiful room be empty?

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I don't recall the infantile crisis of bed-wetting as especially conta- gious, but then I wasn't collecting statistic...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

We are used to Republican Presidents

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If you've been led from the White House by a man who remem- bers history from film scripts, or declares the subject expir...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

The illusion of freedom: My brother at 75

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The continuity girls - and there were more than a few in his case - performing the function of our search engines, today, remind me...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

If reflection's as good as shadow

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  Spring has    no choice.    Elvis Harper   x Carter Smith Mathia...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Hitchcock discovers the extra man

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Who better, may one remark, than the world-class master of shock in cinema, discov- ering a floppy tuxedo hand- kerchief as early ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The temptations of Robert Mueller

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Believe me, I completely agree that it is a little sick-o to empathize with the trials of a prosecutor, especially for the th...
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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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