Red Mug, Blue Linen
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Moving again, old portraits

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I was talking with a friend on his land line in California the other day, about the problem of whether to load up and take along di...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Itinerants

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From time to time, a posting here or there has referenced the college town down the road, to acknowledge some passing influence of i...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Les jeux sont fait à Biarritz

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Americans, especially, always perk up when their President ventures into a gathering he's not competent to attend, beca...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

"We as a nation simply cannot" [fill in the blank]

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We were enchanted, weren't we, to see that wonderful scaffold for demagogic perfidy deployed in an online column by a CNN "Bus...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Danish borders we have known

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Who knew that the present era, such as it is, might come to be defined by that Kierkegaardrail against expansive idiocy, th...
Monday, August 19, 2019

Rued, the boat

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You think Britain has it bad, to be led by a PM of iridescent dis- regard for the realities of Brex- it? America has a simila...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Khaki sempervirens

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  I don't know why I think the green   that is so congenital in khaki is,   in any way, elusive. It may please   me to be...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Suppose it were Friday clxxviii: And one forgot to go to the bank

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    That's not so bad.     There's always the     movie.             Anthony Perkins   and Janet Le...
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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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