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Crying Of Lot 49
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....s. Ludwig Wittgenstein viewed the world
as a "totality of facts, not of things."1 This idea can be combined with
a physicist's view of the world as a closed system that tends towards
chaos. Pynchon asserts that the measure of the world is its entropy.2 He
extends this metaphor to his fictional world. He envelops t.... Part 2 of Paper
....d Muzak into a chaotic system beyond her capabilities
to understand. Images and facts are constantly spit forth. Oedipa's role
is that of Maxwell's Demon: to sort useful facts from useless ones. The
reader's role is also one of interpreting countless symbols and metaphors
to arrive at a meaning. Each reader unravels a different meaning.
Unfortunately, Maxwell's Demon can only apply to a closed system.
Pynchon's fictional system is constantly expanding to include more and
more aspects of co.... |
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