[[A man sits at a desk, working on a laptop. A woman approaches the desk and picks up a tiny book.]]
Woman: What's this?
Man: Douglas Hofstadter's six-word autobiography. After all those 700-page tomes, I guess he wanted to try for brevity.
Woman: Huh. Let's see...
[[Close up of woman, reading the tiny book.]]
Book: I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym
[[Full shot of man and woman again. The woman looks down at the tiny book in her hand.]]
Woman: ...whoa.
Man: I think he nailed it.
{{Title text: "This is the reference implementation of the self-referential joke."}}
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