Chapter 20: Entropy

It’s the middle of the day. I’ve been awake for hours. I even jogged a few miles. I feel good. I’m going to go watch that guy again. I put on my hat. I walk outside. It’s a beautiful day. I open my car door. It feels heavy. The radio comes on. It’s a science talk show. They’re discussing entropy. I remember I had a college professor once who talked about entropy. It was for a philosophy class. I don’t know why he was talking about science. Science and philosophy have nothing to do with one another. I remember entropy had something to do with closed circuits. It had to do with energy, and work, and thermodynamics I think. Something about a closed circuit. The transfer of energy. The disruption of systems. I can’t remember, and I never really understood it in the first place.

It hurts my head to think about topics like that so I change the channel. There is a baseball game on. Listening to baseball sounds great to me. I don’t have to think, I can just listen. But then I start to think about baseball. The announcer says the Brewers are playing at the Reds’ baseball park, and that the park was built so that players could hit home runs. Baseball really is the perfect metaphor for America. You spend money and there are not really any rules, and you can even design a whole park to help your team win. Every park is different depending on how much money you have and how it can help your team win. I can’t believe people say baseball is boring. It has so much history. The history of America.

I buy some coffee on my drive. It’s a beautiful sunny day. I buy two large cups of coffee because I’m going to be here a while. I drive my car across the road from the man’s house. I sit and wait, and I watch. I watch him, and I wait.