Ironic Distance in Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"

[alice wellintown]

I'll comment on this article and on "TSI", the shorts that matter most to
the science in P.

To my reading, "TSI" is far more important than "Entropy", for a bunch of
reasons, but chiefly
because it includes our very first doomed counterforce lead by the little
man, Grover Snodd, a "scientist" who tries to use science/math to
understand the world and ends up abandoning his better angel (the little
black boy). Forget the satanic mills, for now, here is the idea from Blake
we need to focus on. It's not that P alludes directly to Blake in the
story, but the concept, of harm and duty, the responsibility the boys have
to both the jazz man and their imaginary friend, is essentially the same
theme Blake develops, of innocence and experience. Dark, yes, but far
darker than the satanic mills, surely, Blake a big reader of Milton would
agree,  is the heart, dear Conrad.



http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/contemporary_literature/summary/v052/52.2.heffernan.html
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