Ironic Distance in Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"

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didn't Pynchon say somewhere---Slow Learner essay? --that his " meanings' were all there on the page.....as with his remarks on the use of entropy, in which he said he hardly knew it in any depth -ful way......and stated or implied, perhaps protesting a bit too much that one didn't need to know
these concepts in detail to " get" them in the fictions? 





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On Jun 14, 2013, at 11:00 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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