David Wolf wrote:

>I am not, but there is another book in which Glenn Gould's Goldberg
>Variations also figures prominently: Gold Bug Variations, by Richard
>Powers.  ...

I picked up the book either from a remainder bin or at a library sale and
then gave it to the library, unread.  Maybe I should have read it first.
The title suggests of course not only Bach's work but a short story by
Edgar Allan Poe.  Does the author interweave Bach with Poe as Hofstadter
did w/ Goedel, Escher and Bach in his book of the same name?

Walter Meyer