Talking Salsa with Douglas Hofstadter, Enigmatic Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach
…t the first story you included in The Mind’s I was “Borges and I” by Jorge Luis Borges, which looks at the relationship between an author and his work. “His”? “His” being Borges’s – a specific “he” there. I think this is the contaminated generic “he.” It is. Though I think it came out with a sort of traditional generic “he” sound to it. Borges and I contaminated it. I’d like to know what your feeling is about your relationship with your written wo…
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