Sniffy, Miffy and Lippy

I am very annoyed today. I just got to Part II of GEB to discover yet another issue with the printing and binding. This time it is whole page spreads which are completely blank every so often. This is not something you could spot before hand because it comes at a point where the book has blank pages anyway. I am beginning to wonder whether every copy has some flaw or other just to make some point regarding the content. They cannot comment that the book is battered through being in my laptop bag because they are GOING TO HAVE TO PULP IT ANYWAY. I am trying to spot some sort of Isomorphism between this and the things the book says and there is indeed a reference to an Author printing blank pages at the end of a book to foil readers who might go there first. However, this concept is extended to printing lots of gibberish to fool the reader as to where the end actually is. Some reviewers even suggest that lots of GEB is actually gibberish anyway though even in the parts which I may have skimmed it all seems to feel right. There was a scientist who once wrote a completely fake essay regarding the sort of philosophy and postmodernism that is beloved of the pseudo-intellectual crowd and they fell for it entirely. I think it was the sort of thing that attempts to quantify concepts that are completely beyond the reach of mathematics - equations regarding sociology and concepts of political correctness which are the epitome of The Emperor’s New clothes.

The upshot of this is that Goodbye to All that is now half-finished.