Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not the first writer to make a major character a physicist. Jonathan lethem mined similar territory earlier this year in his d...Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not the first writer to make a major character a physicist. Jonathan lethem mined similar territory earlier this year in his delightful book, and now winterson enters the lists with not one, but two physicists populating the pages of her equally wonderful book,.