What Pynchon Knew

[SGSMOOT]

On Tue, 16 May 1995 grnmt at sover.net wrote:

                    
> What Pynchon knew or didn't know when he wrote the text, and what he meant 
> by it seem highly irrelevant to interpreting the novel. 


Agreed - and some of the traffic of late regarding fractals, Mandelbrot, and 
chaos theory has puzzled me. I'm no mathemetician (not even sure I can spell 
it) but _GR_'s publication date would seem incompatible with an _intended_ 
connection with chaos theory, no? Or am _I_ out of date?