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- Achilles: Oh, thank you so very much, Genie. But my curiosity is provoked. Before I make my wish, would you mind telling me who—or what—GOD is?
- Genie: Not at all. ‹GOD› is an acronym which stands for ‹GOD Over Djinn›. The word ‹Djinn› is used to designate Genies, Meta-Genies, Meta-Meta-Genies, etc. It is a Typeless word.
- Achilles: But—but—how can ‹GOD› be a word in its own acronym? That doesn’t make any sense!
- Genie: Oh, aren’t you acquainted with recursive acronyms? I thought everybody knew about them. You see, ‹GOD› stands for ‹GOD Over Djinn›—which can be expanded as ‹GOD Over Djinn, Over Djinn›—and that can, in turn, be expanded to ‹GOD Over Djinn, Over Djinn, Over Djinn›—which can, in its turn, be further expanded … You can go as far as you like.
- Achilles: But I’ll never finish!
- Genie: Of course not. You can never totally expand GOD.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Basic Books, 1979: ‹Little Harmonic Labyrinth›, p. 113