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Gödel, Escher, Bach
“The most influential thing that I read in my early 20s was [Gödel, Escher, Bach]. That was about consciousness and that was [a] big eye opener in some sense.”
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The Darkroom of Damocles
“As a teenager, my favorite writer was — my favorite Dutch author was a guy named Willem Frederik Hermans, whose writing, certainly his early novels, were all about sort of ambiguous things that happened during World War II... it was very much set in the ambiguous world of resistance against the Germans, where often you couldn't tell whether someone was truly in the resistance or really a spy.”