The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-d… - Douglas Hofstadter

By the time we emerge from childhood, we have acquired a reflex-level intuition for where most of our everyday world’s loci of unpredictability lie, and the more unpredictable end of this spectrum simultaneously beckons to us and frightens us. We’re pulled by but fearful of risk-taking. That is the nature of life.

Although dictionaries give the impression of analyzing words all the way down to their very atoms, all they do in fact is graze their surfaces.

And that is also the way the human mind works — by the compounding of old ideas into new structures that become new ideas that can themselves be used in compounds, and round and round endlessly, growing ever more remote from the basic earthbound imagery that is each language’s soil.