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By Natasha Rosow - September 29, 2002

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

In Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, standard hierarchical structures are abandoned in a setting of postmodern cultural chaos. The use of fragmented pop culture contributes to many aspects of the book, namely the sense of combined freedom in the search for meaning. Moreover, this strange mess of references and images comments on the novel's…

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