Ironic Distance in Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"

[alice wellintown]

Huck and Jim? yeah, the parodic base for TSI is Twain. We've discussed this
here at length. I'm blined with science now, so put your shades on old man,
and put away your sheep skins, they don't burn where we're goin.


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> You might want to check out Huck and Jim, too.****
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> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *alice wellintown
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:22 AM
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> *Subject:* Ironic Distance in Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"****
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> I'll comment on this article and on "TSI", the shorts that matter most to
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> To my reading, "TSI" is far more important than "Entropy", for a bunch of
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> 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. ****
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> http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/contemporary_literature/summary/v052/52.2.heffernan.html
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