Red Mug, Blue Linen : Suppose it were Friday clxxvii: And one awoke in an Edward Hopper

Friday, August 9, 2019

It's not only the weather
that strikes the tone for
one's day. But it can al-
most always be seductive.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Telegraph Hill
undated

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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