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MR2Guy Regular user Nashville 179 Posts |
This paragraph still cleans my clocks...
Only the fool would take trouble to verify that this sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forth-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens, and, last but not least, a single ! from Metamagical Themas by Doug Hofstadter Jason
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Where is the fool when you need it to comply with such an imbedded command. <g>
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
And of course, Martin Gardner fans will realize that Metamagical Themas is an anagram of . . .
Jack Shalom
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Jack, some of the folks here might not remember Martin Gardner's feature in Scientific American.
the funny thing about that sentence is it refers to itself, and a fool, and the reader in parsing the sentence then confirming its claim, becomes the fool described in the sentence. Almost a moibus strip in text form. It's okay folks, some of us also read things like Alan Moore's Promethea and ... well there are still a few weeks to catch up before the series finale.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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The Mighty Fool Inner circle I feel like a big-top tent having 2140 Posts |
Well....here I am...a fool. The mighty one to be presice. Allright, let's have a look.......(22 minuetes later)....yeah...it's all as it says....SO WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THAT???
Everybody wants to beleive.....we just help them along.
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