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Recommended by Daniel Kapecki.

Recommended by Daniel Kapecki.

Finished the Covenant Postmillenialism section. Time for some stretching and breathing exercises before moving on to Covenant Amillenialism.

Recommendation from my mom.

I've started this book and stopped twice. This time, there's no turning back!

A little late to the game on this one.

No matter how many pages of Hofstadter's thinking I read, I continue to be blown away.

Intriguing reading during late lunch break today.

Martin Gardner's annotations are indispensable.

5 stars for Part I + 3 stars for Part II = 4 stars

C'est le troisième fois avec Monsieur Meursault et sa vie absurde !

Jeg er endelig lese Knausgård!

Endelig er det tid til å lese Knausgård!

Man I sure have missed prose stylists like Updike and Nabokov.

"The self is now the sacred cow of American culture, self-esteem is sacrosanct, and so we
labor to turn arts education into a system in which no-one can fail. In the same spirit, tennis could be shorn of its elitist overtones: you just get rid of the net" (7).

Only Hofstadter would take over Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column and anagramatize it to "Metamagical Themas." This opening section on self-referential sentences harkens back to the magic that is GEB.

First book of 2017!

Prepping for Sir Robert Burton's masterwork.