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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Can't say enough good things about GEB #4693 04/11/2002 12:44 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA That would be "Copper, Silver, Gold: an Indescribable Metal Alloy, by Egbert B Gebstadter..."? That would be it! PS. The Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson) "GEB" character was named for three other characters - Gunther, Enoch, and Bobbie. (You may infer that both the Hofstadter and the Stephenson books are among my favorites!) Now THAT is intruiging. Was I right that NS was tweaking someone and wrong about whom it was he was tweaking? Cryptonomicon is my very favorite book. GEB was very enjoyable, but there were a few things I didn't understand very well. k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted strange loops tsuwm 07/29/2000 5:05 PM Re: strange loops screen 07/30/2000 2:48 AM Re: strange loops screen 07/30/2000 3:15 AM Re: strange loops screen 07/30/2000 5:53 AM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/2002 10:49 AM Can't say enough good things about GEB wofahulicodoc 04/10/2002 11:26 PM Re: Can't say enough good things about GEB TheFallibleFiend 04/11/2002 12:44 PM Re: Can't say enough good things about GEB boronia 04/11/2002 12:52 PM GEB wofahulicodoc 04/12/2002 12:39 AM Re: GEB TheFallibleFiend 04/12/2002 12:36 PM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/2002 2:28 PM Re: strange loops Jackie 04/10/2002 3:27 PM Re: strange loops of troy 04/10/2002 4:20 PM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/2002 4:32 PM Re: strange loops tsuwm 04/10/2002 5:15 PM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/2002 5:44 PM Re: strange loops of troy 04/10/2002 8:48 PM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/2002 9:19 PM Now that I'm blind Fiberbabe 04/12/2002 1:52 PM Re: Now that I'm blind boronia 04/12/2002 1:59 PM Re: Now that I'm blind Keiva 04/12/2002 2:50 PM Re: Now that I'm blind Angel 04/12/2002 7:20 PM Re: Now that I'm blind Jazzoctopus 04/12/2002 8:13 PM Re: Now that I'm blind TheFallibleFiend 04/12/2002 2:11 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,274 Members9,208 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery, Forix Richard 9,208 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 22 A C Bowden 6 JerryC 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,131 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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