I have been searching for inspiring quotes that relate to the topic of the butterfly effect. Some cover the subject head on explaining exactly as it is while others touch upon it a little more deeply.
In order to go further, I would like to find and/or create visuals that match the quotes/poems I found. I would also like to find more phrases and quotes.
Phrases
Fork in the road
If then, what?
This or that
Quotes
“A fork in the path: one way leads to an image of the world as a book, as a riddle, written in code, each occurrence a presage and glyph of the whole. The other way leads to randomness, mere chance, forever beyond our grasp, casting a shadow of nihilism on an accidental universe. Either way, theology is unavoidable. But in the latter case the language is geometry and statistics, while in the former it is luck and power.
Or is that backwards?
A fork in the path: one leads to, well, not clear, but along the way we dismiss accidents without ado.
… were I superstitious, I should see an omen in this incident, a hint of fate… Of course, I explain the incident as an accident, without further meaning.”
– Sigmund Frued, Psychopathology of Everyday Life
THEORY OF THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
January 1970
Dick Allen
Another world lies tangent to our own—
where everything is whackeyed. You
wear purple skirts’ you leave
the dustcloth on translucent shelves;
the sun
is slightly green.
I sculpture wood and plastic, talk
about the rain.
You take
swigs from bottles of intense champagne.
To everything there is
“A touch of strange.”
you’re walking down a lamplit street and in your place
the woman I embrace
writes strange lovephrases on my cellophane
skin.
The worlds
slide in and out. They look
like time-exposure pictures of the moon
passed through eclipse
or our child’s bronze
toy of spiral rings
resting at the bottom of the stairs.
And there’s no stopping this
constant alternation of ourselves—
no steady state.
One moment you
are X, the other you’re X-I.
Only in your death
when both your bodies lie
stupid and nonplused as iron machines
will you be
like those
who live in one world, spend
their lives explaining why they cannot change,
hanging portraits in their oval frames.
“Every rejection, every disappointment has led you here to this moment”
Waymond (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
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