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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You might want to check out Huck and Jim, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> owner-pynchon-l@waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l@waste.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>alice wellintown<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> pynchon -l<br><b>Subject:</b> Ironic Distance in Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id=article-title><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4C3D16'>I'll comment on this article and on "TSI", the shorts that matter most to the science in P. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4C3D16'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4C3D16'>To my reading, "TSI" is far more important than "Entropy", for a bunch of reasons, but chiefly <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4C3D16'>because it includes our very first doomed counterforce lead by the little man, Grover Snodd, a "scientist" who tries to use science/math to understand the world and ends up abandoning his better angel (the little black boy). Forget the satanic mills, for now, here is the idea from Blake we need to focus on. It's not that P alludes directly to Blake in the story, but the concept, of harm and duty, the responsibility the boys have to both the jazz man and their imaginary friend, is essentially the same theme Blake develops, of innocence and experience. Dark, yes, but far darker than the satanic mills, surely, Blake a big reader of Milton would agree, is the heart, dear Conrad. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4C3D16'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4C3D16'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4C3D16'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/contemporary_literature/summary/v052/52.2.heffernan.html">http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/contemporary_literature/summary/v052/52.2.heffernan.html</a><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>