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During the late 1980s when he was writing ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, Cormac McCarthy became enamored with Chaos Theory and ideas about “complex systems.” In the passage below, he has Rawlins restate the Butterfly Effect in his own West Texas way:

During the late 1980s when he was writing ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, Cormac McCarthy became enamored with Chaos Theory and ideas about “complex systems.” In the passage below, he has Rawlins restate the Butterfly Effect in his own West Texas way: