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Author Katherine Gates recently attempted to make a chart of all sexual fetishes.
Little did she know that Russel and Whitehead had already failed at this same task.
[[Russel and Whitehead are standing with Gödel, Russel holding a clipboard and smoking a pipe.]]
Russel: Hey, Gödel â we're compiling a comprehensive list of fetishes. What turns you on?
Gödel: Anything not on your list.
Russel: Uhâ¦hm.
{{title text: They eventually resolved this self-reference, but Cantor's 'everything-in-the-fetish-book-twice' parties finally sunk the idea.}}
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