Red Mug, Blue Linen : Senegal is sinking

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Our thugs, too, prepare us
in their coarsening of our
discourse and demeanor, to
accept these consequences.

Bernard Plossu
St. Louis, Senegal
1976

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.

Powered by Blogger.