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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by Angostura on Thursday July 05, 2018 @09:46AM (#17463204)
> Metamagical Themes

It's Metamagica Themas, I think - an anagram of 'Mathematical Games'; the Martin Gardner's column in Scientific American which proceeded it.

A lovely book.

Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by zazen on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:39AM (#17463579)
I was briefly very confused until I figured out you were correcting Themes to Themas, and the dropped "l" was just an accident!
Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by Angostura on Friday July 06, 2018 @05:27AM (#17470058)
If you were only briefly confused, I congratulate you - it would have confused the heck out of me for much longer.
Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by lisper on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:03AM (#17463785)
> Metamagica Themas

Metamagical Themas

(You left out the L.)

Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by westmeal on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:23PM (#17473881)
Metamagical Thomas