And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
Isaac AsimovTags: science-fiction fame autograph convention self-referential
When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down.
He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.
Tags: self-referential
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
David MitchellTags: music writing self-referential cloud-atlas
Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.
Vladimir NabokovTags: humor self-referential
I wish my wish would not be granted!
Douglas R. HofstadterTags: self-referential metawish strange-loop
I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress
Douglas R. HofstadterTags: self-referential acronym strange-loop
A mirror mirroring a mirror
Douglas R. HofstadterTags: self-referential mirror strange-loop
Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!
Douglas R. HofstadterTags: self-referential self-reference
Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it
implicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke and
getting the joke, respectively).
Tags: advertising self-referential
This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's, twelve i's, one j, one k, two l's, three m's, twenty-two n's, thirteen o's, three p's, one q, fourteen r's, twenty-nine s's, twenty-four t's, five u's, six v's, seven w's, four x's, five y's, and one z.
Douglas R. HofstadterTags: self-referential
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