CoL49 - Entropy

[Mark Kohut]

   1. Here's the thing (maybe): Aubade is leaving this party--some getting
   it on of course---as a signal/ example to her lover to leave speedily
   2. AND she has let entropy begin, per TRP, the end of all 'getting it
   on" soon enough....a wasteland (Eliot's sense) being made....
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   4. One of the few books TRP has actually referenced as being influential
   is Helen Waddell's *The Wandering Scholars. *
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*https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Scholars-Vagantes-Medieval-Traveling/dp/B0BT6V58KW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LOG8I0UKTZV6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.YRvM-4k_bbcQQzSQCnxnABFU3SXSbqNNL6GeGAoi87KNQkBoA6-4gnNVzPWsRjzGGcVzbRhgzwy73g6oPikgIUIYAm-r7QjtO_2f7dLEGFvwFIdl8DIW-d0cubErGFpzdRn_q3Y9FNNHJ2jOHWiLbeSdLgL5f2regs_aHJIYK7IKr7KEVQUZN3fYxQRSBS_L3qTdPzQJLNg0nVpu1Gd8NYeMlysXUzx2iDLNrWVoB3s.vK2sz-xtWkOd6TPgCmYgxQsWq_TSz1efnHszC6CgDC0&dib_tag=se&keywords=wandering+scholars&qid=1719700445&sprefix=wandering+scholars%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-1
   <https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Scholars-Vagantes-Medieval-Traveling/dp/B0BT6V58KW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LOG8I0UKTZV6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.YRvM-4k_bbcQQzSQCnxnABFU3SXSbqNNL6GeGAoi87KNQkBoA6-4gnNVzPWsRjzGGcVzbRhgzwy73g6oPikgIUIYAm-r7QjtO_2f7dLEGFvwFIdl8DIW-d0cubErGFpzdRn_q3Y9FNNHJ2jOHWiLbeSdLgL5f2regs_aHJIYK7IKr7KEVQUZN3fYxQRSBS_L3qTdPzQJLNg0nVpu1Gd8NYeMlysXUzx2iDLNrWVoB3s.vK2sz-xtWkOd6TPgCmYgxQsWq_TSz1efnHszC6CgDC0&dib_tag=se&keywords=wandering+scholars&qid=1719700445&sprefix=wandering+scholars%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-1>
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   6.
   7.  Fauriel, Claude Charles
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Charles_Fauriel> (1846). "The
   lyrical poetry of the troubadours". In Adler, George J.
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_J._Adler> (ed.). *History of
   Provençal Poetry* <https://books.google.com/books?id=V24Y8XYWM2AC>.
   Translated by Adler, George J.
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_J._Adler> New York: Derby &
   Jackson (published 1860). p. 412. Retrieved 2020-06-01. [...] the
   aubades of the Troubadours were intended to wake up at the dawn of day the
   chevalier who had spent the night with his lady, and to admonish him to
   withdraw speedily, in order to escape detection.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubade

On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 5:12 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

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> life) now in America be linked to that dead world TRP wrote of in his
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> > But now the emphasis is on life breaking through the entropic tower
> which is everywhere....Oedipa's quest, unknown fully to herself yet.
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> At the end of Entropy, Audabe smashes a window to let in the world,
> essentially speeding up the balancing of temperature that will result in
> entropy. She is a morning song of lovers departing, based on her name.
> Callisto's contained, moderated world that he controlled will be destroyed.
> She must overcome his Tower is Everywhere conception of the world in order
> to be the morning of a new world, which we see Oedipa take to the next
> level. Maxine's observing the golden trees again at the end of Bleeding
> Edge might represent that new understanding as well. Three female
> characters that Pynchon links over time?
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> In solidarity,
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> James
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