A minor character in this story is Sandor Rojas, an ex-Hungarian freedom fighter who "plays spit in the ocean" with his three friends, and stays awake on Heidseck and benzedrine pills.
A minor character in this story is Sandor Rojas, an ex-Hungarian freedom fighter who "plays spit in the ocean" with his three friends, and stays awake on Heidseck and benzedrine pills. The textbook Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is ironically thrown at a character's head during an argument with his wife about "communication theory," and a group of Navy sailors barge in thinking they're at a brothel. The above characters sit around and listen to the Duke di Angelis Quartet, who recorded the 10'' LP Songs of Outer Space, while they're at the lease-breaking party thrown by Meatball Mulligan. Elsewhere, Aubade breaks a window after the death of a parrot nursed by Callisto, who sits in his apartment  awaiting the heat-death of the universe. Collected in Slow Learner, FTP, name this story  by Thomas Pynchon, which repeatedly refers to laws of thermodynamics.  
A minor character in this story is Sandor Rojas, an ex-Hungarian freedom fighter who "plays spit in the ocean" with his three friends, and stays awake on Heidseck and benzedrine pills.
"Entropy"