Red Mug, Blue Linen : More fog ii

Monday, August 2, 2010

What's the use of a Midsummer Night's Dream
without trampolines?
A diffuse, undirected aroma wafts through Venice tonight.

'Midsummer Night in Venice'

Mark Rudman, Provoked in Venice

University Press of New England, 1999

Photo, Leica M-6, 50mm Summicron, Ilford Pan F

Laurent

Laurent: 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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