C of L49 few--mostly two-- straggling thoughts on Chap 5

[Mark Kohut]

With yet another read, I see many of the metaphors within Chap 5 as
sorta, kinda  variations on that Demonic Maxwell's Demon.

Guy who is just under breaking even in life......stasis, entropic?

That letter that circles back to Nefastis' place!?...WTF? more entropy?

Mucho losing his self and becoming a whole roomful of people?  like heat dispersion? Or like
a group mind..a good union?

And "furrowed"......it is used three times in this chapter......remember TRPs seeming allusion
to anthroplogical myths of a fertile land, fisher king, etc.......

The old man has lived a "furrowed' life, says TRP....and a bit later says that Oedipa has not
yet gotten any furrows........

A life where we plant deep......not possible until we--she--leave(s) the tower?