Red Mug, Blue Linen : Boston

Monday, April 15, 2013

They come together again,

the luminous swift hand over the slow

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Jon Stallworthy

The Anzac Sonata

New and Selected Poems
Message Received
[fragment]

Norton, 1987©

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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