a kind of bomb nothing ever the same after it
a program can act on itself
in the textuality of the Dao
so that people can read about how to do it
a language that allows for infinite loops
feedback with a microphone and speaker
a squeal that blows your equipment
we must carry the analogy through thoroughly
one level mirrors its metalevel
it is not a total mystery
hinges on understanding not
appears to be a fiction
about how to do it
because the writing
the gödelnumbering is the beautiful thing
the proof relies on the fact
that any derivation is an arithmetical
function of two natural numbers one
is the gödel number
of the statement being derived the other
is the gödel number
of the derivation itself
a kind of bomb
the whole that cannot be
the world the book is divided into
explains the knowledge itself
number theory chinese dna
if a system is powerful enough to encode
information about itself
gödel’s predicate dào kĕ dào … a dna
that codes for enzymes that will destroy it
a program can act on itself as input data
because the writing was
the beautiful thing
of escher’s drawing of two hands drawing each other
the whole that cannot be
explained in terms of the parts
appears to be a fiction
in the textuality of the Dao
the hub of a wheel where the spokes point
From A coat of ashes
The quoted fragment in the first and final stanzas is from Daoism: A Short Introduction by James Miller, Oneworld Publications 2003, p. 149.
The Chinese fragment in stanza 14 is the first three words of the Dao De Jing; the image of the hub occurs in chapter 11.
