TRP Themes

Teen Age Riot alwang at eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Fri Mar 1 16:33:29 CST 1996


At 10:02 PM 3/1/96 +0200, Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt wrote:
>[STOP!] ... OK. The only time I remember information entropy being 
>mentioned directly in TRP's fiction is in _that_ scene in COL49 

True, but though I'm short on examples right now, it seems that Pynchon
certainly has often equated lives with information.  It's done most directly
in Vineland, with the 1's and 0's, but I'm pretty sure it crops up throughout.

Al

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