Red Mug, Blue Linen : What to shave for Monday

Monday, November 19, 2012

He was more or less repulsive to himself,

the little satin parts especially.

Adrien Sahores

Anne Carson

Men in the Off Hours

III. Corps

Random House, 2001©

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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