Red Mug, Blue Linen : Ferrara, 1930

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

But I was so vain, obviously, that even religion was transformed, for me, into a source of family pride.

Giorgio Bassani

Behind the Door

Einaudi, 1964©

William Weaver, translation

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972©

Sean O'Pry, GQ Russia, 10/11

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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