{"id":139,"date":"2010-08-24T21:29:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T04:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=139"},"modified":"2010-08-24T21:29:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T04:29:37","slug":"against-entropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Against Entropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Such a long gap of time between posts. But now this year&#8217;s <a title=\"Mendocino Coast Writers Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcwc.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mendocino Coast Writers Conference <\/a>is over and, as I always do after a major project is completed, I am attempting to clean up my midden of a desk. I&#8217;m reminded of a novel I read back in the 1960s. The author was Michael Frayn, and the somewhat forgettable plot was about a bunch of hack journalists in London who were bored with their jobs.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the title that stuck in my mind: <em>Against Entropy<\/em>. The notion that our lives are a constant struggle against disorder and decay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The surface of my desk is now visible in parts. I still have files to sort, both computer and paper. But I no longer despair of restoring order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The conference was a success. Not financially,\u00a0 in this economically troubled year, but in the quality of instruction and the spirit of community the participants felt. Their glowing evaluation comments made our efforts worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now on to planning the 2011 conference&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such a long gap of time between posts. But now this year&#8217;s Mendocino Coast Writers Conference is over and, as I always do after a major project is completed, I am attempting to clean up my midden of a desk. I&#8217;m reminded of a novel I read back in the 1960s. The author was Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,5],"tags":[104,42,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}