VICIOUS CIRCLES AND INFINITY

If, like Oscar Wilde, you can resist everything except temptation, then this book is irresistible. For there is nothing like a paradox to torment and tantalize the mind, to tease the eye and generally tie you into knots. Ranging from ancient to modern, the anthology includes aphorisms such as Groucho Marx's infamous remark that he would refuse to join any club that would have him as member, and traditional logical paradoxes discussed by philosophers from Zeno to Bertrand Russell. And if the 'crocodile' paradox doesn't get you, 'Zeno's Arrow' will.