Kenosha, Fractals . . . In reply to 05A25CE06F98

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

> 
> In some ways for me it is less important what TRP knows--though he clearly
> knows a lot--or has knowingly put in his fiction, than what happens when we
> read the texts.  It's here that the concepts from chaos theory are so
> interesting to me.  For all the confusion GR produces in readers, especially
> on the first go, repeated readings reveals patterns and orders and
> connections that hold the book together in ways that fulfill the line about
> paranoia: "that *everything is connected*, everything in the Creation."
> Chaos theory seems to break us out from the constraints of habitual ways of
> seeing phenomena, and the same could be said about the experience of reading
> GR.
> 
> Duffy
> 
> 
Well, now this is sort of what I am beginning to see--this 
connectedness.  In a very literal sense, I see images that repeat, each 
surfacing in some scenario or another--much like the persistent 
presence/absence of V. in TRP's first.  But as far as the first section 
goes, I see, so far, very specific images that bring together passages 
that are already "connected," in terms of proximity, but then the images 
help to connect them thematically, as well.  I'll try to be more specific 
later.  I really should be spending less time on this, although it will 
(HOPEFULLY!!) be relevant to my exam, that is, I'd like to see these 
issues questioned on my exam. :)

Bonnie