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the point of the book is to give supporting evidence and guide the reader to the conclusion through testimony of thought and historical anecdote.

in other words, GEB tries to coax the reader into a eureka moment, which is exactly why it has so many fans; it convinced each and every one of us that we were genius for just a split second.




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