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are the words "Eternal Golden Braid" an anagram or something?
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Author: u/perverse_milkman_art *
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URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2zb49g/are_the_words_eternal_golden_braid_an_anagram_or/
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Score: 5
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Created: 2015-03-17T02:41:06
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I see you folks are reading Gödel, Escher, Bach. The book is filled with so many puzzles and self-referential jokes; I remember wondering when I read it years ago why he used that peculiar, specific phrase "an Eternal Golden Braid". Does that have some hidden meaning? An anagram or an encrypted message? I couldn't figure it out.
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u/None [+8] *
Well, it also has the initial letters G, E, and B, albeit in different order.
u/perverse_milkman_art [+2] *
Yeah, that's part of what makes it suspicious. Makes it's an anagram in another language?
u/None [+8] *
Douglas Hofstafdter is fluent in French and spent some time translating his book himself. Mr. Tortoise becomes Madame Tortue to better fit the gender of the noun in that language.
u/makemeunsee [+4] Mock turtle*
do you have any more info / reference on that translation bit? He's not listed among the official translators of the French edition. edit: also there's no evident anagram to "eternal golden braid" or its parts in French
u/None [+7] *
Abandoned Tree Grill Long Readable Tinder Adorable Gender Lint Alterable Dinner God Algebra Lined Rodent Trainable Ogled Nerd Rational Bred Legend
...I've got nothing.
u/Newfur [+4] Crazy like a fox. Literally.*
No, just an anag-ac-strapolation.
u/alexanderwales [+6] Time flies like an arrow*
I mean, it's an anagram for a lot of things. But I don't think that it's an anagram for anything specific. (Douglas Hofstadter took over a column called "Mathematical Games" from Martin Gardner and renamed it as "Metamagical Themas", so he is a fan of anagrams.)
u/chaosmosis [+1] and with strange aeons, even death may die*
Brain, rational, learn, agent. Not getting any good overall results, although these words stuck out to me. Probably coincidence, but on the other hand he is clever.
u/None [+1] *
Eternal - Escher Golden - Godel Braid - Bach