Chaos, Fractals & GR

[Tim Ware]

"Systems kill" really sez nothing.  We bring a system called English to
the text (and vice versa) with its rules of grammar, syntax and
spelling.  We depend on our biological system to keep the whole thing
going.  We employ our various categorizing systems in order to organize
our knowledge.

I think what you mean is CLOSED systems kill though, in the entropic
sense, they really only kill themselves.  People kill.

To "play the patterns" with GR, to bring concepts or patterns to the tex
and see how they mix, is what makes the text so endurable.  It's that 
ambiguity that keeps any work of art alive.  The more the longer.  And 
though the novel seems to decry the imposition of systems ("naming", 
i.e., giving names to things, i.e., the English language), obviously 
something had to give if anything was to be published.  This paradox is 
central to that miasma of ambiguity.

If we impose a system on GR and it doesn't "take", what of it?  Some sink 
to the bottom, some float to the top, some disappear in the mix.  As 
readers, we will forever be attempting to somehow routinize the 
charismatic text, to organize it, make sense of it, tame it.  

That's why "we're" here.

Tim

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On Sun, 21 May 1995, MRS ROSE M DEINNIS wrote:

> He's right you know. Systems kill. 
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