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