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...tune played on his instrument. "It was that sense that the same thing was being felt inside her and inside me--that it wasn't two different feelings, it was the same feeling," Hofstadter says. "If you believe that what makes for consciousness is some kind of abstract pattern, then it's sort of a self-evident fact that whatever pattern exists in my brain could exist in other physical structures in the world." I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it's also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year...
...Escher, Bach 28 years ago. Purely by chance, it was given to Hofstadter for Christmas one year, and he photographed it and put the picture in his book. I told Hofstadter, who loves this kind of spectacular oddity--it's evidence, maybe, that something of his mental pattern made its way into his writing, then into my sister, on into her art and finally back to its original source, Hofstadter himself, thus closing the circle. "That is hilarious," he says. "It is really a strange loop...
While crime is up around the nation and spread out across cities in a broad pattern, the majority of people convicted of crimes come from very few and very concentrated neighborhoods, according to the center, a Brooklyn-based research group that tracks the declared residency of convicts. More than 50% of adult male inmates from New York City come from just 14 districts in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn (with the most, about 12%, coming from East and Central Harlem) even though men in those 14 areas make up just 17% of the city's total population. Similar patterns...
...space. The titles of most of the pieces involve motion, such as “Leaving Los Angeles,” or “Leaving Saint Petersburg.” At the same time, Boym superimposes images on others, displacing them in location and time. Musing on this pattern, Boym suggests, “Maybe it’s a condition of modern life—an immigrant sensibility.” Boym says that she prefers her artwork to float in space without constraint or definition. “I don’t like when images...
...song titles reveal a pattern: “Rehab,” “You Know I’m No Good,” “Love Is A Losing Game,” “Tears Dry On Their Own,” among others, all draw attention to a history of depression, addiction, and pessimism. In her heyday (and probably still, since she refuses to go to rehab), Winehouse notoriously abused drugs and alcohol and suffered from major emotional problems and eating disorders. Her life, and thus her album, is a whole...