Bonus Episode 21 on the Crying of Lot 49: Historioplastic Acts of Metaphor Reifying the Magic of Language and Resurrecting the Legacy of America, feat. Dr. Pig Bodine and the Chums of Chance
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Pinchon: People like to write articles about informational entropy and the crying of lot forty nine because, i guess maxwell's demon was used by some informational theorists. Pinchon is somehow getting at the point that if ou have a lot of possible interpretations a of a given phrase or like text, then communication becomes harder, but the interpretive possibility is higher. If there's only one interpretation, communication is clear, but there's less room for interpretation.
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