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...which are easy to understand, but hard to articulate.Although Hofstadter is no longer as young as he was during the creation of “Gödel, Escher, Bach,” “Strange Loop” strikes me personally as an eloquent explanation of the proto-philosophical quandaries I found myself in during my childhood. Such universal questions seem impossible to tackle, but Hofstadter leads us through them in a book overflowing with colorful anecdotes and thought experiments. He doesn’t pretend to know all the answers—as he puts...
...then was whether or not to fight or pay tribute to the aggressive “Barbary pirates,” who were plundering American vessels that could no longer rely on British naval protection. Americans of the time debated the wisdom of aggression as a response to such proto-terrorist tactics, an unresolved disagreement that continues to the present...
Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Touching my proto-type...
...childbirth, pursued by visions of ghosts and demons coming to harm her 4-year-old daughter, Angelica. Blaming her husband’s malignant intentions, she turns to the advice of a neighborhood spiritualist. The ghost story is told first from the perspective of Constance, then of spiritualist (and proto-feminist) Anne Montague, then of Joseph Barton, father and husband, and finally of Angelica Barton herself, who turns out to be the surprise narrator behind all the voices of the novel. Phillips writes in a subtle style that lends the book a charmingly haunted feel. The mystery narrator flits...
...FRANCE In 18th century Paris, runners pulled vinaigrettes-proto-rickshaws named after the wheelbarrows used to bear vinegar. This 1707 painting by Claude Gillot, Les Deux Carrosses, shows two early examples...