STetc ch 37 /stone soup / parent-child discourse

[Michael Bailey]

Lots of good posts - I feel rewarded for my efforts in producing moderately cheezy commentary, sometimes rising to extremely cheezy - like the guy peddling stone soup, wheedling potatoes carrots & beans

- Clausius coined the term "entropy" in the 19th century (I often think of a great line from the novel _The Hair of Harold Roux_, at a scene where the protagonist, an English professor, is in a department meeting with "a whole table full of people who could tell you that the 19th century was the 1800s without stopping to think about it" or something like that, always makes me chuckle)

Anyhow...I don't think JT was claiming - if I may presume to interpret - that Newton wrote about entropy, but that his copious religious writings were full of Original Sin, which is in many ways a similar concept.


- Bruno and Daphne at least get to share a real conversation, unlike Hicks & his mom.
- however, I think there's some history of abandonment in both families and at this point Bruno is preparing Daphne not to see him again
- I don't sense prurience here, just affection, honi soit qui mal y pense type of thing
- but there may be foregoing passages we'll get to which delve into that possibility