Concepts as character disorders

[Keith McMullen]

[A text] is no narrow thing and the order within it is not  
constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists  
in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist  
without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which  
you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so  
that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and  
that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact  
among others.

--paraphrase of Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, p. 245

On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Jordan Fink wrote:

M&D was driven by the repeating theme of stacked systems that had
emergence properties that were unpredictable for the initial builder:

over and over and over again we see this pattern until we see that the
book itself is this.

From: "terrance terrance" <terrorence@[omitted]>

Also, are concepts in the text or are they something readers bring to  
the
party?