Putting a new spin on Pauli

I was reading some comments on the subject of knitting and came across a little anecdote about Wolfgang Pauli shared by Alan Bostick:

So goes the story, one night while his wife was knitting he took notice and watched her for a while. Then he got close up to her and studied what she was doing. Then he left and went to his offfice.

After some time, he came back to the parlor and said, "You know, there's another way to do that." He took the needles from her hands and clumsily demonstrated purling.

Given Pauli's famed antagonism to any work that failed to meet his perfectionist standards, I thought I'd add my own unprincipled spin on the tale:

Old Pauli was heard to opine,
after too many glasses of wine,
"Franciska, my dear,
at my knitting you sneer.
Am I casting my purls before swine?"


[Edit: It wasn't Pauli. It was Dirac.]

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