I couldn't contain this

[pecunium]

This book saved my life.
This book takes place on one of the two small tagalong moons of Mars.
This book requests its author's absolution, centuries after his death.
This book required two of the sultan's largest royal elephants to bear it;
this other book fit in a gourd.
This book reveals The Secret Name of God, and so its author is on a death
list.




With thanks to jonquil and gratitude beyond words to Albert Goldbarth.

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Wonderful

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, Terry. I've linked to this from my blog, at http://www.geoffarnold.com/mt-archives/000148.html . The Moser/Hofstadter reference (inspiration) is clear... See http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~chruska/recursive/moser.html