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GEB #000

 I'm all over the place... Today I read Godel, Escher, Bach for twenty minutes. I began reading the preface and I wondered whether I should indeed read the whole thing.  There's something in me that feels a book should be read in order of the pages as they are presented.  But there are no rules.  There are only different ways to do things. I thought it interesting, what was said in the preface.  Hofstadter, a physicist, struggles to pin down what the book, GEB, is about.  Somehow it's about connectedness and consciousness.  I thought it strange how I have been thinking about connectedness these days.  Am I pondering connectedness because the ideas have been seeded in me by this very book back when I read it in high school?  I feel like I don't even remember reading.  Sorry, SIR mentor Mike Ososky.  We did have some good conversations.  I appreciate your mentorship. The book begins about Frederick the Great.  I skipped ahea...