Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Saturday commute clxxiv: Travel for breakfast

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The party had spread out to visit the further corners of the site but Deeds, who knew from old not to waste time, headed me a...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Suppose it were Friday clxxv: "What shall we do, play cards?"

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One of the charmingest lines in the oeuvre of Alfred Hitchcock, in the sound era at any rate,  finds the would-be assassin...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Origins of Wednesday xcvii: Books to let go of

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Winston Churchill, invoked already in the casual preposition in this title, argued equally wisely once for a cas- u al relati...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Some summer night

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    As far back as I can remember,     I always wanted to be a gang-     ster. To me, being a gangster     was better than ...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

White hot and humid

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The season is giving us wonderful things to talk about just now, in weather in the Northern Hemisphere which is simply punish...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Disgrace

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I'm in the middle of deliberating in the matter of interior paints, and at a minimum it strikes me as untimely of a Presi...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Allons, enfants

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I listened to David Remnick's nuzzling interview with the politician, AOC, on The New Yorker Radio Hour  on Saturday, ...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

Moving again, white

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We rediscover that the problem of the whites is that they shift, or are subject to shifts in various adventitious illuminations (...
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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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