Mass and light, real world --which permeates AtD

[Michael Bailey]

mark was all, like,
>
>  > The Higgs boson

and page was saying
> Mark,
>
>  Can you give me a reference?
>

I'm thinking maybe it's a general reference, this is
what the dark is that it is always (epigram, candygram, damn, what is
the term... anyway, the McClintic Sphere quote on the flyleaf)

only Mark can tell us for sure, he is delving into the black mountainside
and needs to send back a railroad car (-;

but the reason i poked my head up was to
remember the "boatswain" named "Higgs" in _Mason & Dixon_
-- somebody pointed this out during Toby's 3-page-a-day traversal of M&D