Red Mug, Blue Linen : Otorhinolaryngology is the study of the ear, nose, and throat

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Henry Purcell

The Fairy Queen

Act II prelude

1692

Sir Roger Norrington

London Classical Players

EMI, 1994©

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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