GRGR3: Cause/Effect
Curt Gardner
gardner at haas.berkeley.edu
Tue Oct 22 00:04:14 CDT 1996
RE: GR30.33
When I read this previously noted passage, I noted the last portion of
the paragraph - "But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful,
illusion. The illusion of control. That A could do B. But that was
false."
This reminded me of the much later line: "you will want cause and
effect". Because this is a knotting into, we see that the simple linear
chains of cause and effect are woven together into more complex patterns
that can be difficult to trace. Like the book itself.
Curt Gardner
gardner at haas.berkeley.edu
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