20 years later...

[rhu]

I reread most of Gödel, Escher, Bach today. And I finally spotted the true ending of the dialog with the fake ending. Duh!

Comments

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

OK, I yield. Where?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

You really want me to spoil it? I'll tell you this: It's the tortoise's last utterance on page 404. Read it very carefully.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure we're on the same page. The "fake ending" dialogue is the one with the pushing and popping, where they're still trapped in Goodfortune's kitchen? And the last utterance on page 404 is the one in which the Tortoise says, "thank you for your  outstandig generosity"? I'm so not seeing it...

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

...Google Google Google oh I see. I reread the book recently, and the dialogue that stood out in my mind as having an ending that wasn't really an ending was the aforementioned Goodfortune one. I'd forgotten that there was this dialogue which was about hiding the real ending, and which ended so strangely. Well then.