extravaganza bonanza (eat bulaga!) is encountering concepts i stumbled over as an undergrad lit major (i really think i went to college too young, i should have done a gap year,) written in such plain terms. think of the beginnings of structuralism throw in psychoanalysis (because what is that without language, loss and lacan) and from how it’s going to probably go into present day’s obsession with information so am thinking that’s going to be theorists i don’t really read but have people spout them to me like comments about my weight. all that breadth in terry eagleton’s clarity. but since we’re reading a science writer, we get an abundance of information that you might never really had known. though you would say the same about an anthropologist, a historian. 

i’m at the mouth of his book’s river (the theory! the flood! i don’t like that title, but it’s his book) except i know it’s going to be a sea soon. and i’m excited. i think i like the idea of being a lit-head running into a closet hoping to hide but finding im in a lecture hall of scientists. 

cool line so far,

In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. 

here’s the book cover, i can’t help thinking of the matrix stream 

it’s cool that he’s best known for a book called chaos, one which made the butterfly effect a cliche (i think that’s PR from somewhere) which was then made even more uncool by the horrendous movie with ashton kucher in it. and you can read him write more frequently here. i have not read the site, but his url and the design of the site itself is already making me get chills. not to mention that barcode patch of grass. 

i am developing a send-him-underwear-with-a-fan-letter kind of crush on him, a bit like what i have for chris abani and both jad abumrad and robert krulwich from radiolab. though not yet the love and devotion i have reserved for david foster wallace. 

but i havent finished the book yet. 

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