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- From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
- Subject: A review of this post
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- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:39:15 GMT
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- Not a bad post. Starts off a little slowly, but quickly the reader becomes
- aware of a subtle recursion, a sense that not all is coming together in a
- strictly linear way; and as the reader continues deeper into the post, the
- understanding comes that the post is referring to itself!. The author was
- clearly inspired by Hofstadter (Godel, Escher, Bach) and Smullyan (What is
- the Name of this Book?), in the idea of using recursion as a literary device.
- The post's central idea, of course, is not strictly original, and has been
- used in several variants previously on this newsgroup; however, this reviewer
- has not seen this specific variant previously. The treatment, unfortunately,
- is a trifle underdone; possibly the post would have benefited from additional
- time spent on it. However, one must notice the time stamp, Dec. 28, and
- possibly some leeway is in order. Probably worth the trouble taken to read
- it.
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- --
- ben
- fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- dominate the subversive paradigm
-