V--2nd. Chap 14, V. in Love

[Mark Kohut]

I have reread Pynchon's Entropy, written around the time of V.
New emphases and things to observe and remember but for our purposes here,
just a couple....

Henry Adams is name-checked in it by Callisto, who may not be the most reliable 
character
in the story so his remark needs weighed for irony but he, riffing on Adams'
exploring love and power in history sez they are one and the same...........

"Callisto found himself in much the same state over Thermodynamics, the inner
life of that power, realizing like his predecessor that the Virgin and the 
dynamo 

stand as much for love as for power; that the two are indeed identival; and that 

love therefore makes the world go round but also makes the boccie ball spin, the 

nebula  precess." *
 
 
In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and 
continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path.