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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