Red Mug, Blue Linen : A string is a string in Maupassant, perhaps ..

Saturday, January 28, 2012

You know they're checking us out, of course.

Ew, gawd, Milton. When do they not?

Yes, well, Gérard. I was rather hoping you could sort of peel off in about 20 yards or so?

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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