V.-2 - 1: Yo-yoing versus free will

[Richard Fiero]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
>On Jun 15, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>>In V., Benny Profane's consumed with terror of the mechanistic, the
>>inanimate.
>
>In early Pynchon, the great fear is the inevitable slide that entropy
>suggests. Young Pynch saw that in a very "Metropolis", dystopian,
>kinda PKD way in the stories and "V."
>
>He got over it.
>
>In "V." he really gets into it, the intersection of the fleshy and the
>mechanical.

The slide of entropy is the way Robin and Mark use the term "entropy" 
and indeed it is the way P has used it no less than eight times in 
AtD. P has the arithmetic correct on pg 597 of AtD but the concept of 
slide is just wrong coming from William Thompson's 1852 "On a 
Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical 
Energy." The Heat Death notion is just wrong in addition to being 158 
years old. P used entropy more correctly in CoL49 and from his 
discussion in Slow Learner implied that he has looked into both uses 
of the term.
Is he fucking with us again?