Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, July 5, 2019

Moving again, editing

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Back in 1974 John Hersey published a kind of diatribe of a nightmare novel, My Petition for More Space, which I undertook to ...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

La nuit américaine

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Georges Delerue La nuit américaine   Grand Choral 1973  
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Put out more flags

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    Perhaps host and guest is really     the happiest relation for father     and son. Evelyn Waugh
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Party upside down cake

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The American celebration of the 4th of July commemorates a proclamation of separation from relative tyranny as described in a...
Monday, July 1, 2019

Stunts of ambiguous diplomacy

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I was disappointed as the American President forgot everything he had practiced in rehearsal for his hug at the DMZ with No...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Sunday nibbled sleeve x: What's become of the bacon?

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We, too, are acquainted with students of metallurgy who feel the art reached its apogee in relevance, by isolating the culinary pro...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Saturday commute clxxiii: Image to epigram

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The passage, with which we are all familiar, of an image to  an epigram is so ethically ex- pensive that this must play a large part in...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Suppose it were Friday clxxiv: In the last week of June

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Oh, my, yes. Tell you the truth, I do, too. The final day of any annual term of the American high court always encourages one...
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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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