Posted on 23/06/07
When is death not death?
I AM A STRANGE LOOPBy Douglas HofstadterBasic Books, 412 pages, $32.50Douglas Hofstadter is renowned for his book, Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979), which - astonishingly - won the Pulitzer Prize despite ascending to nosebleed heights of abstraction. I am a Strange Loop is just as abstract, and its elaborate wordplay and multilayered intellectual conceits just as much fun for those of us who like such things.
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