Entropy, Frank & Dot

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My apologies to hag at iafric and perhaps even the rest of the list, but I feel
compelled to visit this entropy/death of the universe thing again.

I finished reading "Frank's World," by George Mangels, and maybe he has
offered me up a way to bridge/arch/rainbow/parabola the
gap/divide/chasm/dilemna represented by the living/dying universe, which I'm
convinced is represented in both "GR" and  in "Frank's World."

          Frank is the world. And we are the Dots on it.

(Maybe even the thousand Dots of light.)

If there is hope in this entropic world (Frank), it is because we (Dot) put
it there, we fabricate it, we contrive it. The world is Death and Life, world
with and without end.

Mr. Mangels puts hope/life there ironically enough in the form of the Tibetan
Book of the Dead preaching Dot. Mr. Pynchon puts it there by freezing the
frame, stopping the narrative, just before the rocket makes contact. He puts
Death on hold, so we can hold out hope.

Entropy says the universe will die, but while we're here we  make death
tolerable by insisting on life.

Of course, that handy little fabrication falls apart rather quickly when you
look at the very very end of "Frank's World."

Mangels: "It just doesn't work that way."

As Mr. Pynchon puts it, there's the screaming that comes across the sky. Then
as Mr. Mangels puts it -- silentium post clamores --

Enough of that. It's easy to talk in circles. Thankfully, there is humor
mixed in to the books/life/world or one couldn't bear to continue thinking
about this heavy b.s., huh?