Chaos, Fractals & GR

Bonnie Surfus (ENG) surfus at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Sat May 20 14:25:55 CDT 1995


There is one more thing to say, and then I'll just drop it.  On the 
matter of literature decades before chaos "proper," isn't it a bit of an 
overstatement to suggest that writers have, from antiquity to the 
present, condsidered in their art the nature of order and chaos?  That we 
have a more systematic way to speak of these inquiries makes them no less 
intriguing.  Please don't confuse my arguments with any search for 
any truth about what Pynchon meant.  I am, as Tim Ware says, 
investigating that "magical interface between text and reader" (sorry if 
it's not verbatim.)

Reading this over, I notice a very childish voice opening the post.  
Forgive me, please.

Bonnie



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