Hmm. The definition wikipedia has for white noise is actually pretty interesting, especially at the beginning when it mentioned that it is a "random signal"... to me this correlates with Don DeLillo's book because he writes a lot of seemingly random words and phrases throughout the book. Wikipedia actually repeats the word "random" quite a few times throughout the whole page defining "white noise", which I thought was pretty intriguing. Glancing through the rest of the page, I saw a lot of mathematical-looking equations {I wasn't completely sure, because I hate math, so I didn't spend much time studying them} which I also find interesting because math is anything but random. Math consists of equations and problems with specific, set, and logical answers. This is also very unlike the concept of death, which is a lot of what White Noise is about. Death has no one answer. There really are no words to "answer" the question of what death or the "afterlife" is.
Hmm. The definition wikipedia has for white noise is actually pretty interesting, especially at the beginning when it mentioned that it is a "random signal"... to me this correlates with Don DeLillo's book because he writes a lot of seemingly random words and phrases throughout the book. Wikipedia actually repeats the word "random" quite a few times throughout the whole page defining "white noise", which I thought was pretty intriguing. Glancing through the rest of the page, I saw a lot of mathematical-looking equations {I wasn't completely sure, because I hate math, so I didn't spend much time studying them} which I also find interesting because math is anything but random. Math consists of equations and problems with specific, set, and logical answers. This is also very unlike the concept of death, which is a lot of what White Noise is about. Death has no one answer. There really are no words to "answer" the question of what death or the "afterlife" is.
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