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100 Words (Sept 08): Day 17

Still, I answered their questions carefully and with all the patience I could summon. I was eager to return to my room, to shower, dress, and join Martina for dinner. As delighted as I was to visit California for the first time, her presence was the highlight of the trip. One of my UC colleagues had recommended a restaurant where we’d dine al fresco while the sun sank into the Pacific.

I wondered whether one of these dull faces concealed a mind that could parlay my mathematical shortcut into a quantum theory of gravity—the Holy Grail of theoretical physics.


Note: See But Wait! There’s More…. for an explanation of the 100 Words project. Read the previous installment or the next one.

© 2008 Edward F. Gumnick

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