Chaos, Fractals & GR

[WildForest at aol.com]

Sure, we all bring "systems" to our encounter with the Text:  biological,
technological, and ideological.  The question is do we need to impose new,
external systems on top of the text?  Especially a text which is overflowing
with its own systems and counter-systems of analysis?  

If the critical impulse is merely a phenomenological pleasure, a private,
onanistic relationship to the book, where the experience and secret knowlege
of the individual reader is the primary  arbiter of meaning, a kind of home
movie projected onto the page, a singularity, as TP might say, then so be it.
 At least, it gives the reader "things to hold on to..."

Frankly, I think the main thrust of GR moves in an entirely different
direction.

Adios,
JSC

"How long can I get away with easy work, cheap exits?  Shouldn't I be going
all the way in?"