I’ve got a thing for fractals, which are, “…generally “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole…”
When I was in high school and college, I would sit in my room late at night and ponder the nature of the universe. What was here before everything? How can you get something from nothing? Can you keep dividing something into a smaller part, like time?
I think time, and maybe everything else, is a fractal, which come to think of it jibes with holograms. Maybe every single thing is a fractal hologram, or pieces of a hologram and we are all part of the One fractal hologram’s subdivisions…
And suddenly Phillip K. Dick‘s VALIS is making more sense to me.
Just saw your comment about graphic novels by the way. Still learning my way around here… I’ll check those out. My wife is a huge comics fan. She loves Grant Morrison but hasn’t read that one. Recently we’ve read Blankets, Persepolis, Fun Home. All great.
There’s going to be more and more great graphic novels coming out as more people discover the genre.
Morrison’s The Invisibles were written in the 1990s, but are still very readable today, especially since they jump through time.
I’ve read some of Blankets and Persopolis and those were good.
Maybe reality, and the path we follow along it can be represented with fractals, each turn on the fractal represents one of an infinite number of paths your life could have taken, turning and spiraling with each and every decision we make and every action we take in our daily lives.