Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, September 6, 2019

Do the deal, Wellington

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Whenever we wax sentimental for the decline of Toryism at home, we've always had the invigorat- ing example of intransi...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Moving again, without portfolio

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The difference between the mass mig- rations of refugees from a scourge and the generational replenishments of enlistments in...
Monday, September 2, 2019

Moving again, lichen

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    Lichen in natural mid-day light     in September is an eloquent but     ambiguous grace note in a cleft     between the harder hu...

Not to politicize the arsenal, you understand

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I realize, it could probably be just me, but I was thinking, it might be worth a try if we were to get the President to ask ...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Moving again, accommodating staff

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I do wonder, why we read so little nowadays in our interior design per- iodicals, of the problems of accom- modating household...
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...
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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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