equivalence

[jporter]

>From the perspective of fictional Oedipa, We are Tristero: the possibility
of another "system" which has begun to intrude into her fictional world.

But the novel is hinged on equivalences: the equivalence of an equation
which describes the accumulation of both noise in the description of
information transmission, and, the physical property of entropy in the
description of physical processes. This mathematical equivalence is
similiar to that noted by Einstein in the equations describing the force of
gravity and the effect of relative acceleration.

There is another, meta-equivalence (para-equivalence?) which hovers about
Oedipa- who of course doesn't really exisit- and that is the equivalence of
her state of nonexisitence as a fictional character, and the reader's
inevitable state of nonexisitence after s/he dies. Are they equivalent? If
they are not, then there must be another "term," shadowy and not easily
recognized, lurking on the reader's side of the equation, representing a
whole other "system" seeking a gate.

It's open.