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Wave Mechanics: A Love Story
Ricardo L. Nirenberg
Just before Christmas 1925, the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, took himself and a mistress off to a holiday in the Swiss ski-resort town of Arosa. On January 9th, when they emerged from their labours, Schrödinger had the key to the wave mechanics that would revolutionize twentieth-century science. What took place in Arosa? Who was the unidentified girlfriend? What is the relationship between this tryst and Schrödinger's mighty burst of creativity in a period of two-and-a-half weeks? Wave Mechanics: A Love Story answers these questions. The fictional memoir of the Countess Morosini, Schrödinger's companion on that holiday, it consists of copies of letters written many years later to her daughter, a cloistered nun, the manuscript itself only recently rescued from the workshop of a Venetian frame-maker. More than one secret is revealed, and along the way we learn a great deal about the relations between Sex and Science.
ISBN 978-0-9784321-0-2
$22
Ricardo Nirenberg was born and grew up in Buenos Aires. He is the author of a previous novel, Cry Uncle (Latino Press, 1998) and short stories, essays on literary themes, and poetic translations. He edits an online literary journal at offcourse.org.
Luggas Wood: A Novel
S.K.Johannesen
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
In Luggas Wood, a dark and brooding headland on the border of England and Wales, an extension of this ancient myth may be playing itself out, in the midst of a series of obscurely inter-connected objects and events. Max Pilbeam, successful sculptor and architect, has come on a retreat to this obscure corner of Britain hoping to re-invigorate a career, and a life, gone stale. He is led deeper and deeper into the mystery of Luggas Wood, and of himself. A corpse, a mysterious grotto, an encounter in The Ferryman, an affecting homily on the Stabat mater, a class in Creative Writing—led by the intriguing Miss Ahmad—in which an unsettling story is discussed, a dinner party in which the question of why there is something rather than nothing is raised. Max starts a new commission, learns about daffodils, meets a band of pilgrims, before realizing, on Easter Morning, what he is meant to do in Luggas Wood.
ISBN 978-0-9784321-1-9
$18
S.K.Johannesen is a frequent contributor to Canadian literary magazines and the author of the novel Sister Patsy (Pasdeloup Press, 2003). He lives in Stratford.
Wave Mechanics: A Love Story
Ricardo L. Nirenberg
Just before Christmas 1925, the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, took himself and a mistress off to a holiday in the Swiss ski-resort town of Arosa. On January 9th, when they emerged from their labours, Schrödinger had the key to the wave mechanics that would revolutionize twentieth-century science. What took place in Arosa? Who was the unidentified girlfriend? What is the relationship between this tryst and Schrödinger's mighty burst of creativity in a period of two-and-a-half weeks? Wave Mechanics: A Love Story answers these questions. The fictional memoir of the Countess Morosini, Schrödinger's companion on that holiday, it consists of copies of letters written many years later to her daughter, a cloistered nun, the manuscript itself only recently rescued from the workshop of a Venetian frame-maker. More than one secret is revealed, and along the way we learn a great deal about the relations between Sex and Science.
ISBN 978-0-9784321-0-2
$22
Ricardo Nirenberg was born and grew up in Buenos Aires. He is the author of a previous novel, Cry Uncle (Latino Press, 1998) and short stories, essays on literary themes, and poetic translations. He edits an online literary journal at offcourse.org.
Luggas Wood: A Novel
S.K.Johannesen
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
In Luggas Wood, a dark and brooding headland on the border of England and Wales, an extension of this ancient myth may be playing itself out, in the midst of a series of obscurely inter-connected objects and events. Max Pilbeam, successful sculptor and architect, has come on a retreat to this obscure corner of Britain hoping to re-invigorate a career, and a life, gone stale. He is led deeper and deeper into the mystery of Luggas Wood, and of himself. A corpse, a mysterious grotto, an encounter in The Ferryman, an affecting homily on the Stabat mater, a class in Creative Writing—led by the intriguing Miss Ahmad—in which an unsettling story is discussed, a dinner party in which the question of why there is something rather than nothing is raised. Max starts a new commission, learns about daffodils, meets a band of pilgrims, before realizing, on Easter Morning, what he is meant to do in Luggas Wood.
ISBN 978-0-9784321-1-9
$18
S.K.Johannesen is a frequent contributor to Canadian literary magazines and the author of the novel Sister Patsy (Pasdeloup Press, 2003). He lives in Stratford.