Red Mug, Blue Linen
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Whose pendulum is this, anyway?

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As if one were some President of the United States, it can be aw- fully challenging to respect the spectrum of incentives for aging whe...
Friday, January 3, 2020

Suppose it were Friday clxxii: The night they invented champagne

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The phrase comes from an obscure Broadway musical from an equally unremarked century, the previous  one. But we take heart, the wi...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Origins of Wednesday cvii: Motivated to meet

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A new acquaintance is seldom undertaken entirely on one's own terms. Those that are, can still remain interesting, when a...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

The name one has

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             So that I could mark it, the continuance of              quality could in some way be that, the time              of ...
Monday, December 30, 2019

New York, May 7, 1949

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Homer Page 1918-1985 Howard Greenberg Gallery New York
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

A box of captain's biscuits, nearly full

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"Rat," he moaned, "how about your supper, you poor, cold, hungry, weary animal? I've nothing to give you - nothi...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Argia

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From up here, nothing of Argia can be seen; some say, "It's down below there," and we can only believe them. The place is ...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Sunday nibbled sleeve xiii: The stone in our shoe

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The plaintiff, giving evidence, said that when he was on the crossing in Chertsey Street, Guildford, he heard a shout. He turned...
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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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