Chaos Theory

8 6 Y C H A O S T H E O R Y B A R R Y G O L D E N S O H N ‘‘Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not determine the approximate future.’’ –Edward Lorenz In the disorderly lives of our friends a marriage of youngsters gallantly blinded by lusts consummated in bawdy places, never beds – on hay bales, on the back stairs of a dorm, or coal cellars, and the wedding at last with noise by a band that never once rehearsed, with faith in battering on, a drum-driven insistent cacaphone; despite the music the dancing rejoiced in hunger with bulging pants, girls nominally dressed loose-limbed in heat, dizzy with unrestraint, dancing in couples and triples, pairing, repairing, in the clatter and holler and moan of drunken assent and the boisterous riot a≈rmed as the days moved them to stable and loving and mindful of obligation. ...