Classic Novels by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf Contain Mathematical Mulitfractal Structures

[changeling67]

Not too sure if I believe this - I think you can find fractals/images/messages in anything if you look hard enough (though God alone knows what they would make of  Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves creation).  If it is all 'stream of conscious' stuff like Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves', then that makes perfect sense, but not really in Joyce's work.  To be honest, I am surprised that they find anything structual in Joyce's Ulysses at all, as the last chapter is a monologue that seemingly has no punctuation whatsoever.  Where is the 'perfect cascade' there?

Chatted to senior lecturer about this.

Me - Is there any truth in this?

MW - Well, you may find structures in anything if you frame the parameters of the search in the right way.

Me - I was thinking that, too.  You can read into something any which way you like.

* lies down to listen to backmasked Judas Priest albums for inspiration.

Comments

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

HHAHAHAHA I'm just getting stuck into "Godel Escher Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter... which is ALL about mathematical fractals and patterns that appear in everything!!!! (and the bugger thank goodness DOES translate the wierd code letters into english... tis a really enjoyable if 'needs concentration' book... but it is SO HUGE!!!! a tome of TOMES! (and he has written an even bigger one --- gaaah what a brain he is!)

And I think that last few pages of Ulysses was indeed a Cascade... a bloody waterfull, a NIAGARA of words......hahahaha. (It did need 'punctuation editing' to make any sense, I have to admit).

The trouble is, brains are running out of things to be brainy about! Once upon a time there WAS infinity and music and so MANY questions to be asked to keep them busy but now - its batting heads to heads and doing the Epimenedes loop!!!

https://www.google.fr/search?q=Epimenedes+loop&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:%7Breferrer:source?%7D&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&gfe_rd=cr&ei=y21mV6iaGpGCaPTPlcAO&gws_rd=ssl

hahahah.. You stick to Moby - he makes about as much sense as these guys!

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I am plodding throught the Moby bio - which is not too bad, actually. I have got to read up on Jungian archetypes pretty soon, so I had better make the best of it.