#strange loop fandom

[future-less-vivid]

The man who wrote "Man who worked with numbers and showed that you can never show some true things about numbers, Man who made confusing pictures like the ones where you don't know which way down is, Man who made music that is pretty to people who work with numbers" also wrote a book about saying with one set of words, or tongue, what was already said in another tongue or set of words. It is called, "The Good Sound of Word Worker".

an Up-Goer Five facebook discussion arrives at Douglas Hofstadter. (x)

[future-less-vivid]

So I'm watching The Fires of Pompeii (Doctor Who), and I can't help but think that English is to Latin as Latin is to Greek. Or maybe something else, but surely not Welsh.

Now I'll go back to appreciating the appearance of household gods on television. ("Sorry household gods." *desultory teenage liquid-sprinkling*)