My Life in Ambigrammia

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/ambigrams-words-double-meanings-art/684404/

15•fortran77•2h ago

https://archive.ph/SFi0a

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dang•1h ago

Recent and related:

Ambigr.am - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45478780 - Oct 2025 (40 comments)

d--b•1h ago

note the author is Douglas Hofstadter who wrote Godel Escher Bach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

Nifty3929•58m ago

Such a great book! I feel like skimming through it again now, to remind myself exactly how Godel's argument worked.

jjcc•8m ago

Exactly. Along with a few other books.

kragen•53s ago

It's exciting to see that a new Hofstadter book is out!

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