entropy in V.

[Paul Kedrosky]

On 27 Jun 96 at 11:18, Gregor Kessler wrote:

>  as a German new-commer to this list, I would like to exploit the 
> vast knowlege of the participating Pynchon experts.
>  I am thinking about a term paper on entropy in P`s V and would 
> like to know if anybody could recommend specific secondary readings on 
> this topic.

As Pynchon himself concedes, he's no expert on the subject and is getting 
progressively less sure of what little he does know. But his original source, 
the one that, in part, inspired him to write the short story "Entropy," was 
Norbert Wiener's book, "The Human Use of Human Beings."

Paul
pkedrosk at sms.ivey.uwo.ca
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