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Hofstadter was fascinated by visual and conceptual loops: feedback, self-reference, recursiveness, anything that curved back on itself in an unexpected way. He provides several examples in I Am a Strange Loop (which is, among many other things, an intellectual autobiography). In the comic strip Nancy, Sluggo has a dream about a dreaming Sluggo, who is also dreaming of Sluggo, and so on in an infinite chain. The girl on the Morton's Salt box holds a Morton's Salt box that has her own image on it, which in turn has a tiny salt box with another girl...
...poor sap, is that the deer are not real. They're robodeer. Yes. Robotic deer. Who can compete with American ingenuity? Malette just had a funeral for a buck that took so many bullets in the line of duty --more than 100 in seven years--they called him Sluggo...
DIED. Ernie Bushmiller, 76, cartoonist who for half a century turned out his daily comic strip Nancy, now syndicated in more than 600 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn. He turned to cartoons featuring the simply drawn, beady-eyed Nancy, Sluggo and Aunt Fritzi after concluding that he had less talent than his fellow art students...
...Crimson softball team, led by captain Mike Savit and Bill "Sluggo" Scheft, won its first game of the season April 23 when the Classics forfeited...
...strived for in bustling, "civilized," polluted Cambridge? or did he just have a lousy time up at Dartmouth and felt vindictive? It could be that he had a beer spilled on him, was refused entrance into one of seven bands on campus or, just maybe, he is that poor "sluggo" referred to in the article entitled "Harvard Havoc Reigns in Hanover" (by Messrs. Calabrese and Yeager) who was caught "discussing ICBMs and Mutually Assured Destruction with a Skidmore freshman...