Yes, I’m Christie, though you may know me as christielouwho. I don’t know if I was even given the option of reading GEB, I was simply told to read it as well. Regardless, the decision was made and I immersed myself into the preface and knew it’d be easily interesting. I’m rather glad this group has started up. With so many different minds, expertises, and backgrounds to feed from, it’ll be interesting to see the intricacies of the book through different minds.

I completely and whole-heartedly admit my disdain and general ignorance for mathematical theorems and data. I’m a ‘questioner’ at heart, not a decider, so the black/white qualities of math have always frustrated me. Yet, the writing style Hofstadter uses and his passion for explaining Gödel’s theorem to the layman make even the most ignorant (*cough*, me) able to comprehend in context with Escher and Bach’s work.

I will admit that I do have a rather extensive background in art and classical music. I trained to be an artist and worked as a master’s apprentice for three years, was accepted into an art school, and even had two very artistically-minded parents raise me. I’ve always loved Escher’s art and even did a study of it in middle school off of his Metamorphosis. As for Bach… I’ve listened to Bach and his respective peers since I was a child, and swear I have some of his pieces in my subconscious along with Bizet’s Carmen. I have quite a plethora of Bach’s works and will do my best to post the pieces on the site for your listening pleasure off of my personal tumblr, and the tumblr I help run fyeahclassical.