Physics of Interminableness

At a dinner in Orvieto, Pope Urban IV shouts at Thomas Aquinas to pass the involtini. Whether this incident actually occurred is doubtful. Whether it matters is even less clear. And yet the delay—the dish hovering eternally between hands—refuses to end.From this trivial, possibly apocryphal incident unfolds The Physics of Interminableness, a philosophical satire and narrative inquiry into why so m...