Why we will need lawyers anyway

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Apr 11 09:41:09 PDT 2002


Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> But Pynchon's use of scientific terminology is quite exact. The Crying of
> Lot 49 has a treatment of entropy and Maxwell's Demon that I have used to
> teach the concept in intro phil of science classes. His discussion of
> statistics in Gravity's Rainbow is also correct, if a bit too subjectivist
> for my taste.

If I recall correctly, his chemistry is also exact. The only other writer I know of who knew his chemistry well was Shelley. (I don't know whether actual knowledge of chemistry was behind Dreiser's use of the term "chemism.")

Carrol



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