FR online review

Otto ottosell at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 21 10:00:34 CST 2007


I also see entropy and the good ole' delta-t:


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"I thought it would be completely reversible (...) forgot the element
of time (...) irreversible processes of one kind and another (...)
this sort of gap opened (...) that was enough to make it impossible to
get back to exactly where we'd been." (355)

P. 1077 has been mentioned by several reviewers: we're in hell since
1914, but haven't realized this fact.


2007/1/21, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> The novel's paradoxically "unifying" theme is Anarchy
> and its cute bigger sister Chaos. All Hail Eris ! ! !
>



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