Life is Meaningless?

[Otto]

I have read all of Pynchon several times, in English and German, but I cannot recall any special piece of text where he does say so ... furthermore I don't know where he had decided definitely that we're living in a closed, not an open universe that will go on producing stars and galaxies forever.

Otto
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  From: Williams Kris A SSgt 305 MDSS/SGSL 
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  Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:09 AM
  Subject: Life is Meaningless?


  For those who haven't signed up for google news alert, this just came down:

   

  [...]For many years, astrophysicists have theorized that one day the universe will cease expanding, decay into an "inert gray blur," and all existence will cease. This theory was cited by writer Thomas Pynchon and others as proof that life is meaningless[...]

   

  http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/2390.article

   

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