Red Mug, Blue Linen : Suppose it were Friday lxvi: Splashmaker tests another stone

Friday, November 16, 2012

All that good administration

was able to do, bad manners

have triumphantly undone.

Villiers David
Advice to my
Godchildren
op. cit.

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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