{"id":93838,"date":"2016-01-27T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=93838"},"modified":"2016-01-27T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:59:42","slug":"fractals-man-theyre-everywhere-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/fractals-man-theyre-everywhere-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractals, Man, They\u2019re Everywhere, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_93839\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ifscompose_02.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93839\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93839\" class=\"wp-image-93839 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ifscompose_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ifscompose_02.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ifscompose_02-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Foster Wallace famously used the Sierpinski gasket, above, as a model for the structure of <i>Infinite Jest<\/i>. Image: Nevit Dilmen, 2006<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Many reasonable people have concluded that the only way to stay sane in New York City is to be drunk all the time. It was just a matter of time until the advantages of this lifestyle reached the theater community and seeped into its most pious sect, the Shakespeareans\u2014and so was <em>Drunk Shakespeare<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/26\/theater\/review-drunk-shakespeare-where-the-tipsy-and-the-sober-take-liberties.html\" target=\"_blank\">The gimmick here is that at each performance, one actor begins by consuming enough shots to trip even the best-trained tongue<\/a> \u2026 There\u2019s a fair amount of impaired performing going around \u2026 What sets <em>Drunk Shakespeare<\/em> apart is that alcohol isn\u2019t the main character. It\u2019s more like an enabler, allowing the actors (sober and drunk) to take all sorts of liberties with Shakespeare, but skillfully.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the UK, at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, a show called \u201cdeath: the human experience\u201d attempts to succeed where commercial culture has failed: at selling death. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2016\/01\/exhibition-death-human-experience\" target=\"_blank\">The show repackages death into friendly jewel-pink tones and soft lowercase letters, yet does not shy away from frank presentation of the processes that surround death<\/a>. Visitors can peruse a model of the mortician\u2019s workplace, where bodies are embalmed and dressed for funerals \u2026 One of the final displays, a digitized version of Don Celender\u2019s 1982 \u2018Reincarnation Study,\u2019 punctuates a gloomy subject with humor. Celender, an artist and professor, asked dozens of celebrities \u2018in which form would you like to return?\u2019 Julia Child, an American chef and television personality, responded with a list: \u2018three inches shorter, feet two sizes smaller, flat stomach, capacity to eat all day and not gain a pound, otherwise Okay as is.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Not unrelatedly, here\u2019s the Polish writer Filip Springer on Przycz\u00f3\u0142ek Grochowski, a famously bleak housing complex in Warsaw:<em> \u201c<\/em>\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/nonfiction\/filip-springer-blueprints\/\">You can\u2019t even die here in dignity<\/a>,\u2019 I overhear someone say on Brac\u0142aw Street. \u2018You can\u2019t even get a coffin in and out of the apartments. They have to wait with it downstairs. The sexton wraps the corpse in a sheet and shoves it out the window. I saw it happen once. They were carrying a dead man. His hands were dangling. No dignity at all, but how else are you going to do it? That\u2019s why all the furniture people have has to be collapsible.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in fractals: they\u2019re everywhere, dude. In Joyce\u2014fractals. In Proust\u2014fractals. In Cort\u00e1zar, Woolf, Dos Passos, Bola\u00f1o\u2014fractals, fractals, all fractals, sometimes even multifractals. This per science: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2016-01\/thni-twg012116.php\" target=\"_blank\">Some of the world\u2019s greatest writers appear to be, in some respects, constructing fractals. Statistical analysis carried out at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, however, revealed something even more intriguing<\/a>. The composition of works from within a particular genre was characterized by the exceptional dynamics of a cascading (avalanche) narrative structure. This type of narrative turns out to be multifractal \u2026 The study involved 113 literary works written in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Spanish \u2026 To convert the texts to numerical sequences, sentence length was measured by the number of words \u2026 The dependences were then searched for in the data \u2026 This is the posited question: If a sentence of a given length is <em>x<\/em> times longer than the sentences of different lengths, is the same aspect ratio preserved when looking at sentences respectively longer or shorter?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>John Lingan on Johnny Mercer, the songwriter who had a string of hits in the 1930s and \u201940s: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/magazine\/item\/752-that-old-black-magic\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond his lyrics\u2019 rural and black affectations\u2014the dropped <em>g<\/em>\u2019s, the cornpone scenery\u2014Mercer brought a distinctly Southern stillness to American pop<\/a>. Economical yet vivid in his natural descriptions, he kept his songs\u2019 emotions at a cool simmer and rarely told stories, instead opting for calm, wistful dioramas \u2026 He preferred to write lyrics while supine, eyes closed, \u2018as if he could dream songs into existence,\u2019 according to the critic Wilfrid Sheed. His entire public persona was built around this same aloofness; onstage (a rare occurrence, though he became better known for live performances in the 1970s), his mind seemed to be elsewhere, and even his Tinseltown reminiscences seem muted, obligatory.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many reasonable people have concluded that the only way to stay sane in New York City is to be drunk all the time. 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