It's written by this guy Clément Marot, who was a poet in the early 1500s.ĭOUGLAS HOFSTADTER: At the court of a queen. JAD: The poem was basically a get-well card.
I fell in love with the poem immediately and memorized it. You know, three syllables per line.ĭOUGLAS HOFSTADTER: And it was delightful. JAD: A tiny little poem that kind of sat right in the middle of the page.ĭOUGLAS HOFSTADTER: Like a long thin sausage. But we actually got interested in him thanks to our producer Lynn Levy, because of an obsession of his which predates that.ĭOUGLAS HOFSTADTER: I was taking a French literature class, and one day I came across this poem.
JAD: You may know him as the guy who wrote Godel, Escher, Bach, which is a hugely influential book in certain circles. JAD: So this episode was inspired by a guy named Doug.ĭOUGLAS HOFSTADTER: Doug Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science, Indiana University, Bloomington. We'll have eight experiments in translation, transcreation.
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