Monday, October 17, 2011

Appendix II: Phantasm and Modern Literature: 5. Zola and the Crack-up

"Carrying the crack" == Cain. (321)

The crack is "continuous, imperceptible, and silent." (324)  It is Aion.  It has a heredity (cf. Foucault's genealogies). (324)  Like a gravity well or gyre, the crack "follow[s] the lines of least resistance" along an "oblique line" (read fibonacci numbers in Pascal's triangle). (325)  Compare to logistic map.

"The crack...--the appetite for oil". (330)

D speaks of the small heredity reflected in the grand heredity, the small maneuver in the large maneuver. (331)  Compare to the Sierpinski triangles within the Pascal triangle, also the two levels of the Baroque House.

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