Quan­tum mechan­ics is the girl you meet at the poetry read­ing. Every­one thinks she’s really inter­est­ing and peo­ple you don’t know are obsessed about her. You go out. It turns out that she’s pretty com­pli­cated and has some issues. Later, after you’ve bro­ken up, you won­der if her aura of mys­tery is actu­ally just confusion.

Phys­i­cal The­o­ries as Women. Man, McSweeny’s just keeps pump­ing out the goods.