An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop''

		Phil Ballla writes: good indebtedness to you & Hofstadter Thank you for your gowd work putting Hofstadter in such condensed form so I can see such lovely parts in him from where I live in the mountains of Kyushu, Japan -- without books, without access to them -- but with access to computer. I like Hofstadter's reverence for and celebration of humanity for the ineffable thing in it that I'll call ''context.'' I like his translation of Eugene Onegin for its rhythm and musicality -- surpassing Falen's for same bit shown. Hofstadter reminds me of the key to genius in the poet Joseph Brodsky -- the love of what the Russian-American called ''loose ends.''
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