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Tags: Self-Organization / Compelxity, Lang:en

Summary

In his seminal book The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Benoit Mandelbrot wrote, "A cauliflower shows how an object can be made of many parts, each of which is like a whole, but smaller. Many plants are like that. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."  In this collection of linked essays, William Bradley presents us with small glimpses of his larger consciousness, which is somewhat irregular itself.  Reflecting on subjects as diverse as soap opera actors, superheroes, mortality, and marriage, these essays endeavor to reveal what we have in common, the connections we share that demonstrate that we are all fractals, in a sense—self-similar component parts of a larger whole.

Praise for William Bradley and Fractals

…a brilliant constellation…
Dinty W. Moore, author of Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy

…an incisive, moving rumination on love and faith and identity in the face of illness, both personal and societal….
Michael Kardos, author of Before He Finds Her

Smart, funny, heartbreaking, and captivating… a must-read for lovers of essays.
Steven Church, author of Ultrasonic: Essays; founding editor of The Normal School.

These are the essays you are looking for.
Sonya Huber, author of Opa Nobody and Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir

In Fractals we find William Bradley, yes, but here, too, we find ourselves.
Patrick Madden, author of Quotidiana

…varied and vast contemplations of time, memory, faith, fear, death, regret, and the knowledge that the past is forever lost to us…
Jill Talbot, author of The Way We Weren't: A Memoir

…humorous, moving, and honest….
Michael Piafsky, author of All the Happiness You Deserve

You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll have spent your money well. This is a wonderful book.
Ned Stuckey-French, author of The American Essay in The American Century

Funny, wise, sad, and uplifting… a treasure-trove.
Natalia Rachel Singer, author of Scraping by in the Big Eighties

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