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Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eterbal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition)

Page 56, sentence 5:

The amount of money in our pocket will not change as we walk down the street, jostling it up and down; the number of books will not change if we pack them up in a box, load them into our car, drive one hundred miles, unload the box, unpack it, and place the books in a new shelf.

Instructions:

  • Grab the nearest book (Yes, GEB was the nearest, I bought it last week)
  • Open it to page 56
  • Find the 5th sentence
  • Post the text of that sentence in your blog with these instructions.

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