Metamagical Themas - Questing For The Essence - Douglas Hofstadter ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/45494779/t74YW-VYh7SxpdWLhb8s9kafkIa5IKoXkSMl6SeQlNA-cover_D5nv85M.png) ## Metadata - Author: **Douglas Hofstadter** - Full Title: Metamagical Themas - Questing For The Essence - Category: #articles - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/45494779 ## Highlights - Raymond Smullyan, someone whose name I had known for a long time, but who I had no idea belonged to this charmed circle. Smullyan was calling to chat about a book he was writing on Taoism, of all things! For a logician to be writing about what seemed to me to be the most anti- logical of human activities sounded wonderfully paradoxical. (In fact, his book The Tao Is Silent is delightful and remarkable.) All in all, it was a most enjoyable day. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01ja75napp6ap26v59yz4nhxt5))