<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andy F</b> <<a href="mailto:andy274@gmail.com">andy274@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 2/24/06, Doug Henwood <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Hmm, wonder what this character could tell about me. I did the<br>> indexes for Wall Street and After the New Economy, but of course
<br>> those are my own books, so the radar might not work right.<br><br>Didn't that character say that authors shouldn't do indexes for their<br>own work? Is that for real?<br><br></blockquote></div><br>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.)
<br><br>It's also fun reading in its own right, because the author put a bunch of inside jokes in it.<br><br>-- <br>John S Costello<br><a href="mailto:joxn.costello@gmail.com">joxn.costello@gmail.com</a><br>"[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