M&D 390

[davemarc]

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> From: Michael McAulay <michael.mcaulay at 3do.com>

> In particular (to get to your question) the (amazing, stupendous,
> my-favorite-so-far) bread passage from pp 204-206 which includes the
> following:
> 
> "the small cavities within exhibiting a strange complexity, their pale
> Walls, to appearance smooth, proving, upon magnification, to be made up
> of even smaller bubbles, and, one may presume, so forth, down to the
> Limits of the Invisible.  The Loaf, the indispensible point of
> convergence upon every British table, the solid British Quartern Loaf,
> is mostly, like the Soul, Emptiness."
> 
> Sounds like a fractal to me.  And there's another fractal ref around
> page 400 or so (can't dig it up at the moment) where a shoreline is said
> to have infinite length (?? paraphrasing).  And now that I think of it
> there's this bit from pp 389-390: "...yet have we ever sought to produce
> these thin Sheets innumerable, to spread a given Volume as close to pure
> Surface as possible, whilst on route discovering various new forms..."
> 
I'm looking forward to learning more about those fractals.  In the
meantime, I note that all three images (especially 1 & 3) are analogous to
M&D itself.

davemarc