What is your favorite dialogue from Gödel Escher Bach?

Not in Godel, Escher, Bach - but there is one between Achilles and the Tortoise in Metamagical Themas. It is called "Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium" or "What is the meaning of the word "I"?". It is absolute genius. I have never got bored of it despite reading dozens of times. read more

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter. By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, the book expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. read more

It doesn't sound very much like Bach, and it's more likely one of the many pieces from that era that was misattributed to Bach. It might be by Johann David Heinichen. Amusingly, the one recording on YouTube that attributes it to Heinichen also cuts off the ending, possibly tricking you like the Majotaur tricks Achilles. read more