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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Can't say enough good things about GEB #4693 04/11/02 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 Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted strange loops tsuwm 07/29/00 05:05 PM Re: strange loops screen 07/30/00 02:48 AM Re: strange loops screen 07/30/00 03:15 AM Re: strange loops screen 07/30/00 05:53 AM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/02 10:49 AM Can't say enough good things about GEB wofahulicodoc 04/10/02 11:26 PM Re: Can't say enough good things about GEB TheFallibleFiend 04/11/02 12:44 PM Re: Can't say enough good things about GEB boronia 04/11/02 12:52 PM GEB wofahulicodoc 04/12/02 12:39 AM Re: GEB TheFallibleFiend 04/12/02 12:36 PM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/02 02:28 PM Re: strange loops Jackie 04/10/02 03:27 PM Re: strange loops of troy 04/10/02 04:20 PM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/02 04:32 PM Re: strange loops tsuwm 04/10/02 05:15 PM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/02 05:44 PM Re: strange loops of troy 04/10/02 08:48 PM Re: strange loops TheFallibleFiend 04/10/02 09:19 PM Now that I'm blind Fiberbabe 04/12/02 01:52 PM Re: Now that I'm blind boronia 04/12/02 01:59 PM Re: Now that I'm blind Keiva 04/12/02 02:50 PM Re: Now that I'm blind Angel 04/12/02 07:20 PM Re: Now that I'm blind Jazzoctopus 04/12/02 08:13 PM Re: Now that I'm blind TheFallibleFiend 04/12/02 02:11 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 Topics13,913 Posts229,809 Members9,187 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Karin, JeffMackwood, artguitar, Jim_W, Rdbuffalo 9,187 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 832 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 17 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,851 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,944 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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