MDMD(4) p.123 small re-write
Vaska
vaska at geocities.com
Sat Jul 26 17:35:14 CDT 1997
Eric Alan Weinstein wrote:
>This also made me think of a Tom Stoppard play, Arcadia,
>in which one of the principal characters dreams of a math
>complex enough to explain real-world forms---a tree, a flower,
>a hillside----instead of the geometry of squares, rectangles,
>etc. which dominates her late 18th, early 19th C. world.
Isn't this one of the things those chaos theory people are trying to do?
Come up with ways of knowing that go along with the multifariousness of
actual [and living] forms of being? Does anyone on the list know more about
this?
>I'm *almost* sure that that Colm Meany and Pat Stewart
>(who reads for the M&D tape) have also been in this play. >
>Has anyone on-list bought the M&D tape? In the 6-hour version?
So the thing really does exist?! Thanks.
Vaska
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