i thought that pynchon story, entropy, was metaphorical. it seemed fanciful, i wondered why the characters were hermetically sealed in a high rise apartment, suffering. i don't recall what happened in the end but i recall the time in chicago when old folks roasted in their high rise apartments. that was a freak thing, but this i reckon is chronic, not metaphorical. humans have made a world where we have to control the climate in our little living cells to survive because we've destroyed the planetary climate system. we've manufactured chaos and mass extinction. and tomorrow's gonna be worse.