The force of The Counterforce

[Mark Kohut]

So, I'm hurrying, almost running, to the car because I'm late, but
evidently a butterfly's wings in Mazatlan had changed my life just enough
so that the first words I heard when I turned on the car were:
 
"...the Counterforce in Pynchon is mythic, however".........
 
True (after "first words" anyway). 
 
Physicist named, I think, Gerald Joyce, on Studio 360 (NPR linked) who went on
to speak about atoms being immortal and linking to his conception of The Counterforce
in what is, evidently, a series about books that have changed one's life-----for real.