Douglas Hofstadter first published Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid in 1979 and my then high school self tried, and failed, to read though the entire book. It focused on the contradictions, with Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems, M. C. Escher's Drawing Hands and Johann Sebastian Bach's Canon a 2 per tonos, a piece that keeps rising until it ends a whole tone higher than it started.
