[lbo-talk] Socialim [was: Cheery thought for the next 300 years

[John Costello]

On 2/24/06, Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/24/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> > Hmm, wonder what this character could tell about me. I did the
> > indexes for Wall Street and After the New Economy, but of course
> > those are my own books, so the radar might not work right.
>
> Didn't that character say that authors shouldn't do indexes for their
> own work?  Is that for real?
>
>
The best index I've ever used was to Douglas Hofstadter's _Goedel, Escher,
Bach_, and he did it himself.  Numerous times have I looked for a passage in
that book with only an obscure reference, and the index almost always came
through for me.  (I can't think of a time it didn't.)

It's also fun reading in its own right, because the author put a bunch of
inside jokes in it.

--
John S Costello
joxn.costello at gmail.com
"[O]nce the running of the state involves a permanent and massive shortage
of historical knowledge, that state can no longer be run strategically." --
Guy Debord
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