Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, February 15, 2019

What news of Bottom, and his anxious lower border?

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  Who can dream of making light of   Fox News' pixie dust, after trans-   forming our endearing Bottom into   an Ass f...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Origins of Wednesday lxxxviii: Consent or custom?

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The intriguing defense of Virginia's Lt Gov (the office doesn't really use   the orthographic space it occupies), to...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Sunday nibbled sleeve iv: Governor Northam's therapy campaign

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Briefly to recapitulate, for readers blessed to have been comatose last week, the Governor of Virginia, hav- ing been publicl...
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...
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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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