Title: The Demon is in the Details
Review: While von Baeyer's discussion of Clerk Maxwell and his "demon" is quite interesting and, for the most part, informative, he ignores the dramatic appearance of the demon in modern literature. Thomas Pynchon, whose superior fiction focusses on entropy, spends untold brilliant words discussing Maxwell's demon in "The Crying of Lot 49," his most accessible work. A chapter devoted to Pynchon's theories and how well they correllate with Maxwell's and, perhaps, an imaginary debate between Pynchon and Maxwell, would have added immeasurably to the faint enjoyment I derived from the book. He also missed the clear musical salute to Maxwell by the Beatles in "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," which allegorically compares the demon to English common law.
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