Ironic Distance in Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"

[alice wellintown]

 Does Pynchon apply modern science to fiction? Or does he do something
else?  A close examination of the texts argues that he does something
else. What we discover, if we have a basic understanding of the science P
brings into his stories, is that P doesn't use any science we can't get an
adequate understanding of by looking up a few things in a good science
dictionary or at Wikipedia. In fact, as David Seed demonstrates in his
wonderful essay, cited by Hefferan, is that all we need do is look up
entropy in a dictionary, as he does, and then read the story as we were
trained, not in chemistry class or in physics class, but by reading
fictions, and specifically by reading Pynchon (his fiction and his
non-fiction).
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