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by cjf4 1582 days ago
Another eclectic fractal not listed here is the novel Infinite Jest. David Foster Wallace specifically noted the plot structure as a Sierpinski Gasket. You could think of the tennis academy, the halfway house, and the international assassins plots as the three subcomponent triangles within the overall triangle of the novel.

Of course literature doesn't fit cleanly - IJ simultaneously has a cyclical plot structure, but fractals are interesting way of thinking about the aesthetics of the book.