Loop* by Apt
Posted by Encota on 21 Jul 2017
When I noticed that ‘Polo’, the Title of this delightful puzzle, could define itself using ‘I am a strange loop’, then I thought to myself, “Now that is Apt”
Many Listener solvers will be very familiar with the startlingly original book subtitled The Eternal Golden Braid (EGB) by Douglas Hofstadter from the 1970s (?) which intertwined thinking on Escher, Gödel and Bach with mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, music, philosophy, Lewis Carroll and much more besides. It’s not a quick read but well worth the effort. His follow-up book in 2007/08 was: “I am a strange loop”. And they’re full of loopy things, contradictions and items that merely seem to be contradictions…
[The ‘fridge door wall’ at the Eden Project, Cornwall, UK]
So if the Theme is based on Hofstadter and his ‘loops’, then how strange would an Escher, Gödel, Bach based-loop need to look? This strange, perhaps?
Coincidence, or merely seems to be coincidence? You decide…
One of my favourite themes, very well executed.
Finally, looping all the way back to the start, I’d very much like to thank the Setter:
now that is Apt.
Cheers
Tim / Encota
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