Red Mug, Blue Linen : Origins of Wednesday xliii: Café of the analogues

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The flowing colonnade,
the consonant current,
inspire this sportsman
with his contribution.

His texts may be digi-
tised; his play is all
analogy.

Puiforcat
Initiales
Paralleles

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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