Castillo's laws of thermodynamics
Spencer Thiel
spen at sirius.com
Wed Sep 15 15:13:18 CDT 1999
At 3:51 PM -0400 9/15/99, Terrance wrote:
>"No change." Henry Adams, three generations before his own,
>had stared aghast at Power; Callisto found himself now in
>much the same state over Thermodynamics, the inner life of
>that power, realizing like his predecessors that the Virgin
>and the dynamo stand as much for love as for power; that the
>two are indeed identical; and that love therefore not only
>makes the world go round but it also makes the boccie ball
>spin, the nebula precess.
>
>Is this it? I'll send the rest if it is???
No. I'm probably getting my characters confused. It's the part where it
says something like, "so-and-so made up a mnemonic device in his freshman
year so that he could remember the laws of thermodynamics. They were,
'Things are going to get worse before they get better', 'Who says things
are going to get better'" something like this... It's quite early on in
Entropy if I remember correct.
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