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By Kevin Etten - April 26, 2000

The Importance of Communication If You Mean It, Sing It Entropy, Maxwell's Demon and the Crying of Lot 49 View of Scene From pp. 101-105 in Thomas... Fragmentation in The Crying of Lot 49 The Sound of a Lot of Furious Crying: Moving Past... Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Crying of Lot 49 and Chaos Human Transformation and its Basic Aspirations The Presence of Entropy in The Crying of Lot 49 Uncertainty: Poe’s Means, Pynchon’s End

When reading Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" one is flooded with a deluge of historical references (dates, places, events) and, unless a historical genius, probably feels confused as to the historical accuracy of such references. As critics have shown, Pynchon blends factual history with fiction and manages, as David Seed writes in "The Fictional…

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