Godel Escher Bach

currently just compiling quotes and notes here as I read. I err on side of letting things go, so I can actually get through the book in reasonable time and not get caught up in missing something the first time through.

Link: /tmi.pdf

20th anniversary edition preface was actually really helpful for context.

What is an “I”, and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, “teetering bulbs of dread and dream” – that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

Bach’s canons. “canonical”