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One of my first pick-ups as an adult in a bookstore was Gödel, Escher, Bach. People thought I was crazy for grabbing it. One of my friends was fascinated by it
by gexla 6y ago
One of my first pick-ups as an adult in a bookstore was Gödel, Escher, Bach. People thought I was crazy for grabbing it. One of my friends was fascinated by it and I ended up giving it away. Hopefully he did good things with it!
- giardini 6y agogexia says>"One of my first pick-ups as an adult in a bookstore was Gödel, Escher, Bach... I ended up giving it away."< You did the right thing, provided you didn't throw away part of your life reading that sludgepot of a book. After reading GEB, I used it as a doorstop in a utility room. Probably still there, lying in wait for some fool to pick it up and get sucked into Hofstadter's voluminous prose. I would have burned it but burning GEB would take too long to be worthwhile. When I think of burning it I think of one of the old wood (and paper) -powered Volkswagens that the Germans used domestically during WWII: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html search for "Mass-produced woodmobiles" GEB might provide enough paper to drive out of Germany. Had the Germans made a "bullshit-powered" automobile they could have launched themselves into orbit with a single copy of GEB.