MDMD(4) p.123 addendum to small re-write

[Vaska]

Paul Mackin wrote:
>Does Vaska's question about the mathematics that might explain
>real-world structures relate to fractals? Anyway, I just noticed
>that Paul DiFilippo's forthcoming collection is called Fractal Paisleys.
>It's a small, fractal world.

No idea: all I do remember is a couple of scientists at the Ontario Science
Centre telling me last year [they tried to teach me a little about chaos
theory; not too unsuccessfully -- great guys] that the work just begun in
this field might eventually produce "the sort of science Goethe would have
loved," as one of them put it.  

Congrats to Paul DiFilippo!

Vaska





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>Eric Alan Weinstein wrote:
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>> >Also, I think the image of  *the clocks unspoken inward desire
>> >to follow the beating of the Sea*  is one that goes to the very
>> >heart of "Mason & Dixon," the very heart of what Pynchon
>> >is trying---not what he is 'trying to say', for Pynchon is
>> >in a Heideggerian sense, trying to "let Being be"----to allow
>> >to unfold in his work.
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>> adding to this point, he accomplishes his  "letting Being be"
>> precisely by structuing a scene in which he forces Being to
>> do what, in the Ordinary Universe, it will not--- having two
>> clocks carry on a conversation.
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>> A stab at truth and a lie, the magic of fiction.
>> Eric Alan Weinstein
>> E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk
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