ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how scientific knowledge (astronomy in James Joyce’s Ulysses, thermodynamics in Pamela Zoline’s “Heat Death of the Universe,” chemistry and biology in the last chapter of Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table ) can be embedded into everyday contexts, blending the cosmic with the quotidian. I introduce the concept of “interconnectivity anchor” to investigate the strategies through which narrative can reveal—in often surprising ways—the interrelatedness of reality.
