Entropy

[KXX4493553 at aol.com]

I see there one contradiction in the old and the new theories of 
thermodynamics: the second law of thermodynamics is a very deterministic view of the 
world, and Pynchon (the early Pynchon) is a fan of it; the new theories, the 
nonlinear theories à la Prigogine are indeterministic ones. Or is it the difference 
between macrocosm and microcosm? The macrocosm is deterministic, the microcosm 
indeterministic? Isn't there a contradiction in Pynchon's work itself? Or 
does he only speak about macrocosmic structures, and the microcosmic ones are 
only examples? Isn't it impossible to analyze P.'s work in the categories of the 
chaos theory?

Just a thought.

kwp
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