ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Fraternities And Sororities, Epithet, World War I
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But in its lethargic way their life is provided, as they said, kicks. (p. 2668) Stress on the anti-political (art for art"s sake) Static time (art as timeless or outside of time) Setting: apartment in dc, on top of the other. Linear time (sense of art as contingent on place/time) Mulligan is having a party: almost a porous space. Calisto is trying to keep his bird from dying: paranoid about the end of the world. Meatball"s apartment: discussing marital problems, communications theory, jazz quartet, georgetown sorority girls and government workers. Sailors are convinced they"ve found a whorehouse. Are invited to the party as well. Pynchon believed that this story was a well-intentioned failure: too formulaic. Calisto is living in the past, closed off: embodies what is problematic about modernism. What does entropy mean: lack of order or the predictability: general decline into disorder, the degree of disorder or randomness of the system, rate of transfer of information.
