The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[MCC]

Ok, the page number is 137 of "U-Turn".

This quote comes from a book, can you give me the book's title or its author

Achilles (a greek warrior, the fleetest of foot of all mortals) and a Tortoise are standing together on a dusty runway in the hot sun. Far
down the runway, on a tall flagpole, there hangs a large rectangular flag. The flag is solid red, except where a thin ring-shaped hole has
been cut out of it, through which one can see the sky.

Achilles: What is that strange flag down at the other end of the track? It reminds me somehow of a print by my favorite artist, M.C. Escher.
Tortoise: That is Zeno's flag.

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[MCC]

udosuk has PM'ed me with the correct answer to this but does not want to post it, as he does not have suitable quote to carry on the game.

Let's just say my search engine has let me down again


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[MCC]

This udosuk's PM to me.

This site wrote:
From Godel , Escher, Bach, pp 29-32, the noble Douglas R. Hofstadter presiding.

I.e. this book commonly known as GEB.

This brings this topic to an end unless someone wishes to cary on.


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[dancer]

Okay I will do one so you guys can not guess,
"There's a calm surrender
To the rush of day
When the heat of the rolling world
Can be turned away
An enchanted moment
And it sees me through
It's enough for this restless warrior
Just to be with you."

[udosuk]

It seems it's more a "lyrics game" for dancer than a "quote game"... I'm not participating because I'm not a pop music expert and I needed google to help, which only took less than 3 seconds to get me the title+artist of this song... However, to make things more interesting (while not making it too cryptical), you can consider making a sound file (.wav or .mp3/.wma) and uploading it to rapidshare etc so that it would take more of an effort to input the correct text to a search engine etc... Just an innocent little suggestion...

[MCC]

Elton John - "Can You Feel The Love Tonight".

Ok, see if you can get this from 1978.

"In the desert a nomad is no bad thing
Pitch your tent next to a Bedouin
But choose a good date to read your palm
And listen to the words of the desert song"

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[Myth Jellies]

Had to google that one...upsetting, I never knew of her before this

Maddy Prior Ali Baba

How about this one...

Hug and kisses. ex ex ex ex zero zero zero zero.

[MCC]

Spot-on Myth Jellies, so far, no luck with yours.


MCC

[Bigtone53]

Hug and kisses. ex ex ex ex zero zero zero zero.

The version I have found is Hugs and kisses and the last zero is more like zeroooo. Are you happy that you have the quote right?

[dancer]

yes it is Can you feel the love tonight

[Myth Jellies]

Yes, the quote is spot on. The album was released in 1982.

[Myth Jellies]

Just to juice it up a bit, here is another lyric from the same song

I met this guy - and he looked like might have
been a hat check clerk at an ice rink.
Which, in fact, he turned out to be. And I said:
Oh boy. Right again.

[udosuk]

Found the song by Ms L.A. thanks to MJ's extra hints... Interestingly, most pages found by google had "hug & kisses" and 3 X's + 4 O's instead of 4 X's + 4 O's...

[Myth Jellies]

udosuk has it. For the record the artist clearly enunciates four X's and then four "zero"s (not Oh's) on the track. You can listen to the "Let x=x" track for yourself here. http://www.rhapsody.com/laurieanderson/bigscience

[MCC]

If you click on the above link in Myth Jellies post and try to play a song, you get this message:

U.S. Only
We're sorry. We have detected that you are outside of the United States. This service is currently only available to residents within the United States.

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