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... look at things ' , Grant said . ' No , ' Malcolm said , ' It's the only way to look at things . At least , the only way that is true to reality . . . We have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens ...
... look at things ' , Grant said . ' No , ' Malcolm said , ' It's the only way to look at things . At least , the only way that is true to reality . . . We have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens ...
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... look much the same on different scales of measurement . And the same dynamic obviously operates in certain works of art . For that matter , once fractal geometry had been discovered by Benoit Mandelbrot , creative artists of all sorts ...
... look much the same on different scales of measurement . And the same dynamic obviously operates in certain works of art . For that matter , once fractal geometry had been discovered by Benoit Mandelbrot , creative artists of all sorts ...
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... look - alikes , Bardot look - alikes , Monroe look - alikes , Elvis look - alikes and Madonna wannabes . For that matter , a possible signature of a complex nonlinear classic – a perfect literary fractal – could be that it will almost ...
... look - alikes , Bardot look - alikes , Monroe look - alikes , Elvis look - alikes and Madonna wannabes . For that matter , a possible signature of a complex nonlinear classic – a perfect literary fractal – could be that it will almost ...
Contents
chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
selfsimilarities in Shakespeare | 75 |
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Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture, and Chaos Theory Harriett Hawkins No preview available - 1995 |
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