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And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile -- except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
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convention
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fame
science-fiction
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Isaac Asimov |
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Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
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writing
music
self-referential
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David Mitchell |
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A mirror mirroring a mirror
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strange-loop
self-referential
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Douglas R. Hofstadter |
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I wish my wish would not be granted!
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strange-loop
self-referential
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Douglas R. Hofstadter |
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"I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress" --
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strange-loop
self-referential
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Douglas R. Hofstadter |
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Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!
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self-referential
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Douglas R. Hofstadter |
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Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.
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Nabokov Vladimir |