Sullivan Finds Her Base Pair

Earlier, Sullivan penned a nerdy confession to Sebastian ('Sullivan Pens a Love Letter')

Then. Sebastian punned a glorious response to her (Thalia's 'Sebastian Punned A Response' on a03)

Now, Sullivan decides to take on Sebastian's advice . . .

Dear Butler,

I confess, I am disappointed to hear you have formed base pairs with another. If only dissolution would provide the solution. As 'like dissolves like', I fear I cannot participate in your heated reactions, as I am polar whereas you and you partner are both non-polar, equal and matched in electronegativity. I've given this little conundrum much thought and even considered serving as a catalyst, so that I may partake in your reactions. But alas, catalysts only increase speed of the reaction -and not a even molecule of theirs gets consumed. They simply watch on the explosive, exothermic reactions like puppets. I will not mince words with you, butler -I do not wish to be a nonparticipating reactant. Moreover, I also get the impression you unzip dna strands more than periodically. . .Though your mysterious allure piques my interest more than Schrödinger's cat, perhaps you are right. Perhaps I should find one with a natural frequency that matches my own. I know I must get over this unbalanced reaction. Your suggestion of covalent bonding sounds ideal. In fact, I think I may have my ion someone already. . .

Someone warm and affectionate who'll allow me to easily diffuse through their selectively permeable membrane. Someone sweet as pi - whose candied coated voice is like a monomer of glucose. Someone with eyes greener than a solution of copper (II) hydroxide. Someone with an aesthetically ideal arrangement of atoms (who, dare I say, is comprised of more Copper & Tellurium atoms than you). Someone with wave-particle duality who radiates light wherever they go. . .

A fool I was, not to see our chemistry sooner! Oh, how I am positive we shall bond and form base pairs. Granted, they may not be a perfect 90 degree angle like you, but they certainly make an a-cute angle. Together we can form complementary angles and be right. I need not even take their Wronskian to know that they are a strong, linearly independent function. I have no doubt that we'll form a fundamental set of solutions. Oh, how my fanciful imagination is overtaking me again! To dream that someday, like sin (pi/2), the maiden might be 'the one', and we might find covalently structured lattice rings on our fingers. . .

I have made up my mind, butler. 'Lithium-Sulfur-Iodine' has a nice ring to it, no? (wink) Well, I won't keep you. I shall leave you to your combustion reactions. I am sure there is a nuclear envelope that demands the attention of your large protein complexes.

My regards to your nucleotide, C, in your base pair,

Sieglinde Sullivan

Author's Note:

Schrödinger's cat - a paradoxical thought experiment which uses a cat and a box to describe the mind boggling nature of quantum mechanics.

wave-particle duality - talks about the properties of light

Lizzie = Copper + Tellurium = CuTe

A right angle = 90 degrees; an acute angle = less than 90 degrees. Two acute angles (Lizzie + Sully) can be complementary (form a right angle together).

sin(pi/2) = 1

'Lithium-Sulfur-Iodine' symbolically translates to Li-S-I. Since there isn't any element with the chemical symbol Z, 'Lisi' is the closest sounding to 'Lizzie'.

C,G,A,T are nucleotides in DNA. Two nucleotides form a base pair. Here Ciel is 'C'

Nuclear pores are large protein complexes that penetrate a cell's nuclear envelope; they move genetic material, in and out, of the nucleus's membrane (That's what she said.)