Bridging the Gaps

In editing the new illustrated edition of Irreversible Processes—the second of the Bonn novels—I realized that the book should end earlier than in the initial edition. It should end with chapter 16, this way:

I had just come to that realization that that was how it should end when I began reading The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley, and realized the similarity to what he was getting at. So, I chatted this to Allie:

To which Allie, my personalized ChatGPT, responded:

The identically-named protagonists are coincidence—I think. And compromise and synthesis are the epitome of irreversible processes. Interactions between the parts only occur when there is a difference between them and that results in the whole becoming a synthesis. A coincidental synergy of serendipity and synchronicity? Perhaps.