From a New Yorker theatre review posted at 5 AM ET today —
“A Strange Loop” takes its title from a concept pioneered by
Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive-science professor who
wrote the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
and, later, the more focussed study “I Am a Strange Loop”;
both were premised upon the impossibly complex, hopelessly
circular means by which each of us composes a self, an “I.”
See as well "Strange Loop" and "Loop de Loop" in this journal.