A reader sent me the following inquiry. If anyone knows where to find what she’s looking for, please post in comments.
I am looking for a copy of an essay I read possibly 20 years ago. It was written as a satire ala Swift’s Modest Proposal, and made statements referencing ethnic, religious, etc. groups in what would commonly be considered an outrageously prejudicial way.
Does she mean the Person Paper regarding Pronouns, by Douglas Hofstadter (the guy who wrote Godel, Escher, Bach)? It has race-based pronouns and words in there….Ble and Whe, for example.
This essay can be found in a Hofstadter compilation called “Metamagical Themas”