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* [[Guide Dang It]]: Despite the cross-references referred to on this page, there are numerous others which are harder to spot; in fact, [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/books/hofstadter-GEB-FAQ/ there are pages about the numerous] [http://www.nada.kth.se/~kai/lectures/geb.html references in each chapter].
* [[Here We Go Again]]: The ending, which also {{spoiler|makes the entire book into a [[Framing Device]] for itself}}.
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: The answers to the puzzles in "Sonata for An Unaccompanied Achilles." Not only {{spoiler|is the answer explicitly used in the text}}, it is also
* [[Instructional Dialogue]]
* [[Koan]]: On a whole bunch of baffling ones.
* [[Logic Bomb]]
* [[Make a Wish]]: Achilles (after going inside of a picture made by Escher, which itself is an event inside of another book in the original story) finds a magic lamp and tries to wish for more wishes, but that doesn't work, because the genie doesn't grant meta-wishes. {{spoiler|Eventually he is granted a Typeless Wish, and wishes that this wish would not be granted, but then it results in an event that cannot be described (and therefore no attempt is made to describe it).}}
* [[Meta Fiction]]: Some stories are so extremely meta that they have no content other than discussions of themselves discussing themselves discussing themselves ad infinitum, usually indirectly.
* [[Musical Theme Naming]]: Every dialogue is named after a piece by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], or a pun on one.
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* [[Textbook Humor]]: Well, the text wasn't all that serious to begin with, but you have to wonder when Hofstadter describes the DNA of a feline as CATCATCATCATCAT...
* [[Title Drop]]: In the form of [[Book Ends]].
* [[To Be Continued]]: The two Dialogues Prelude... and ... Ant Fugue are, well, two sections of a separated story. The end of the former ends with TTortoise ([[You Make Me Sic|Sic]]), while the latter begins with Achilles and CCrab ([[You Make Me Sic|Sic]]), using "ATTACCA" as a guide.<ref>"Attacca" is Italian for "to be continued...immediately".)</ref>
* [[The Treachery of Images]]: Subverted -- one character takes the pipe out of the painting and smokes it.
* [[Variant Chess]]: They do not describe the actual rules, but suggest a variant that the movement of the pieces would change the rules.
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