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==Structure== ''Gödel, Escher, Bach'' takes the form of interweaving narratives. The main chapters alternate with dialogues between imaginary characters, usually [[Achilles and the tortoise]], first used by [[Zeno of Elea]] and later by [[Lewis Carroll]] in "[[What the Tortoise Said to Achilles]]". These origins are related in the first two dialogues, and later ones introduce new characters such as the Crab. These narratives frequently dip into [[self-reference]] and [[metafiction]]. [[Word play]] also features prominently in the work. Puns are occasionally used to connect ideas, such as the "Magnificrab, Indeed" with Bach's [[Magnificat (Bach)|Magnificat in D]]; "[[SHRDLU]], Toy of Man's Designing" with Bach's "[[Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring]]"; and "[[Typographical Number Theory]]", or "[[TNT]]", which inevitably reacts explosively when it attempts to make statements about itself. One dialogue contains a story about a genie (from the Arabic "[[Djinn]]") and various "tonics" (of both the [[Tonic water|liquid]] and [[Tonic (music)|musical]] varieties), which is titled "[[Gin and tonic|Djinn and Tonic]]". Sometimes word play has no significant connection, such as the dialogue "A [[MU puzzle|Mu]] Offering", which has no close affinity to Bach's [[The Musical Offering]]. One dialogue in the book is written in the form of a [[crab canon]], in which every line before the midpoint corresponds to an identical line past the midpoint. The conversation still makes sense due to uses of common phrases that can be used as either greetings or farewells ("Good day") and the positioning of lines that double as an answer to a question in the next line. Another is a sloth canon, where one character repeats the lines of another, but slower and negated.
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