Quote by: William Gaddis

Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from the outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...


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Author Bio


  • NameWilliam Gaddis
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornDecember 29, 1922
  • DiedDecember 16, 1998
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksThe Recognitions; J R; A Frolic Of His Own
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; National Book Award