Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, June 15, 2019

Saturday commute clxxii: Exits we've been offered

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  I suppose it's just me, but if I were   a track star, I'd think twice, before   entertaining advice to quit the field ...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Frisée

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         Of all the barbarities made famous   by the American President, the re-   mark, I, alone, can fix it affords   the m...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

I don't care for wine at the sea

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     One has to be able to enjoy a dis-      crimination notwithstanding a wave      of popular feeling these days, for      the p...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Saturday commute clxxi: Remembered sentences ii

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I seldom mean anything, by the poetic interlineations here, but to celebrate the virility with which phenom- enally basic passages from...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Suppose it were Friday clxxiii: And recycling went on

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     Sometimes I think one can      complain too much of the      calm of an orderly way of      life.                   ...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

What's with all this talk of impeachment?

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  Really, I just don't think I'm up   for it at all. Such a whole lot of   drama for the gratification of ap-   petit...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Further remark on Dean on screen

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James Dean participated in three movies in his career and died in that same year, 1955, at the age of 24. He was directed b...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Decoration Day

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           One wouldn't wish to make light   of a seasonal holiday set aside   for the last Monday in May, to   express a debt to...
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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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