Kenosha, Fractals . . .

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

On Tue, 16 May 1995, Circ Staff wrote:

>  		
> 	I want to suggest -- hesitantly, deferentially -- that in recent 
> discussions of the Kenosha Kid and the fractal structure of GRAVITY'S 
> RAINBOW we are imputing to Pynchon a consciousness of his effects 
> that he does not, much of the time, possess.
> 	In the introduction to SLOW LEARNER, does he not specifically
> repuditate the practice of writing fiction merely to embody ideas?  I see
> Pynchon as an instinctive writer, albeit a hugely learned one. 
> 	Even instinctive writers, of course, cannot help HAVING ideas, 
> but this is quite a different matter from coding Mandelbrot into one's 
> work. 
> 
> 				Andrew Walser
> 				Arlington Heights, IL 
> 
> 	
> 
> 
Wait.  I never said anything about Pynchon CONSCIOUSLY deploying 
fractals.  I CERTAINLY never said anything about his "coding" Mandelbrot 
into his work.  It's always worth thinking about "influence."  But what 
I'm really asking about, what I hoped to express, was/is a curiousity 
about the existence of fractal images in GR.  Whether or not they are 
intentionally mapped is a different matter, certainly an interesting one, 
but one that is secondary to my interest in what I see as fractal images 
in the text.

I see fractal images in GR.  Anyone else?

Bonnie