IVIV and Entropy

Doug Millison dougmillison at comcast.net
Sat Sep 12 10:20:45 CDT 2009


I wonder, at this phase of his life, given the way that IV seems to  
reach back to his other novels, if Pynchon might also allude or refer  
to his stories.  And, given the way he criticizes his early work in  
the Slow Learner introduction, I wonder if in IV he has alluded or  
referred to his stories in a way that might reflect his later  
judgments of them, in the way that he presents these allusions in the  
IV text.  I expect to be surprised, at some future moment, to learn  
that IV does not point us back to all of his published works in a way  
that illuminates the important things that Pynchon has been trying to  
do in his work.

Robin:
> I'd say that Inherent Vice is entropy personalized.
'
Mark the K:
> Wow.




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