Entropy (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Pynchon
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: February, 1957
- Setting: A suburb of Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Meatball Mulligan, Sandor Rojas, Saul, Callisto, Aubade
- Genres: Realism
- Subjects: Birds
- Locales: Washington, D.C.
The Story
The narrative opens with an evocation of the fortieth hour of Meatball Mulligan's lease-breaking party, complete with drunken revelers, much debris, and loud music. The latter awakens the upstairs tenant Callisto from an uneasy sleep, and the scene shifts to his apartment, which is a kind of sealed hothouse luxuriating in plants and protected from the wintry weather outside, where it has been, the reader learns, precisely thirty-seven degrees Fahrenheit for three days running (despite announced changes in weather by the newscasters).
Callisto has been nursing a...
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