It sometimes feels as if I had shouted a deeply cherished message out into an empty chasm and nobody heard me. - Douglas Hofstadter

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It sometimes feels as if I had shouted a deeply cherished message out into an empty chasm and nobody heard me.

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About Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is a mathematician, cognitive scientist, and Pulitzer Prize winning author.

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Native Name: Douglas Richard Hofstadter
Alternative Names: Douglas R. Hofstadter

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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

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