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This is reminiscent of Hofstadter's desire for a book of reviews of itself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter#Columnist http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by dbul 18y ago
This is reminiscent of Hofstadter's desire for a book of reviews of itself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter#Columnist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter#Columnist).
Wikipedia tries to keep its integrity, but I think sometimes they need to be more reasonable. Someone ought to create a complement to wikipedia which allows people to add things like this and other non-spam articles which wikipedia editors won't tolerate.
- unalone 18y agoI guess not surprisingly, I attempted to write a book of reviews of itself once. The idea still lingers in my mind, and I'd suspect that after a handful of years I'll pull it out and finish it. (I think the idea will be to mark the book as a "50th anniversary edition" of itself, and have the entire thing just be a history of forwards to the book from various known literary critics, documenting the critical reception of the book throughout history. It's a very conceited idea.)
- MaysonL 18y agoIt's already been written: The Book of the Book by Idries Shah (1969). http://www.amazon.com/Book-Idries-Shah/dp/090086012X http://www.amazon.com/Book-Idries-Shah/dp/090086012X