Red Mug, Blue Linen : Atoning with Soldati

Saturday, November 27, 2010

.. for bold rebellion

Be welcome then, great Sir,

to constant vows of loyalty

never to vary more ..

Henry Purcell
Fly, Bold Rebellion, 1683
James Bowman, counter-tenor
Robert King, King's Consort
Hyperion, 1990©

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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