Yeah, I also remember a very sfi-ish small piece in Blood Meridian. I'm traveling now and don't have the book so won't try to butcher a quote from memory. But my hazy memory is that it had a bit about propagating information structuring the world...
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Breecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:02 AM > To: Friam Group > Subject: [FRIAM] complex cormac > > I've always been at a bit of a loss to understand why > novelist Cormac McCarthy is in residence at SFI (apart from > the fact that he's brilliant and so are a lot of people > there, and I'd certainly have him in residence in my office > if I could); but reading his Nobel-winning post-apocalyptic > "The Road" I came across two lines in as many pages that > started to make it more clear: > > "The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns > out the light and is gone." > > "Query: how does the never to be differ from what never was?" > > That's enough to make afternoon tea more interesting... > db > > dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. > Santa Fe: 505-690-2335 > Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 > www.BreeckerAssociates.com > > > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
