Author: James Gleick

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• Penelope Lively (1)
  • IN: How it all began (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Butterfly Effect was the reason. For small pieces of weather -- and to a global forecaster small can mean thunderstorms and blizzards -- any prediction deteriorates rapidly. Errors and uncertainties multiply, cascading upward through a chain of turbulent features, from dust devils and squalls up to continent-size eddies that only satellites can see.
    FROM: Chaos, (1987), Book, US
• Bharati Mukherjee (1)
  • IN: Jasmine (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The new geometry mirrors a universe that is rough, not rounded, scabrous, not smooth. It is a geometry of the pitted, pocked, and broken up, the twisted, tangled, and intertwined.
    FROM: Chaos, (1987), Book, US