Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Saturday commute clxvii: Approaching Palm Sunday

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Our shameless Californian bias, which is much less intended to be prejudicial than evangelical, rears itself again in the veg...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Decay by cynicism: Marseille on plastic

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A vulgarian hospital bloc, in- dispensable dispensary of medic- ations of impeccable hazard, is now a bland sea of taupes and...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Did Yagoda never tire?

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An upheaval of purges at the moment, at the highest levels of the slippery slope of the New American Government, can claim no comp...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

Further on l'audace

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If, as I am doing, you are regretting that we don't have John Keegan with us anymore, to sort out the chore of dis- posin...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

Saturday commute clxvi: Street sign in O'Hara

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It's the month of May in my heart as the song says and everything's perfect: a little too chilly for April and the chestnut trees...
Friday, April 5, 2019

Suppose it were Friday clxxi: Promising news of farce

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The week has brought word of a worthy parody of the American President, oth- er than by himself, on which I've been made ...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

Of guts forsworn or found

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It's notable, I think, how the American  President's perversion has triumphed im- portantly in the culture of competi...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Défense de fumer

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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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