Castillo's laws of thermodynamics

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Spencer Thiel wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -
> st.
> -


"As a young man at Princeton," Castillo was dictating,
nestling the bird against the gray hairs of his chest, :
Castillo had learned a mnemonic device for remembering the
laws of Thermodynamics: you can't win, things are going to
get worse before they get better, who says thery're going to
get better. At the age of 54, confronted with Gibb's notion
of the iniverse, he suddenly realized that undergraduate
cant had been oracle, after all.

Castillo goes on....and on...did you need the whole bloody
thing? 

I'll send it offlist if you ask.

TF