This extraordinary book examines how ‘animate beings can come out of inanimate matter’ and how meaningless symbols acquire meaning despite themselves. Illustrated with a rich array of metaphors, dialogues, allusions, paradoxes and plenty of puns, and riffing on the mind-bending art of MC Escher, and the intricately composed works of Bach.
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As the name suggests, this book is brief, very brief in fact – the seven lessons are about 10 pages each. But there is great deal of wisdom packed in this brevity.