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golden cockerel infinite regress

Original ID   : 1354
Created On    : 2003-02-13
Last Modified : 2005-05-01


I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the Golden Cockerel Hymn Book, on the cover of which was a photo of a few kids singing merrily and holding copies of the Golden Cockerel Hymn Book, on the cover of which was a photo of a few kids singing merrily and holding copies of the Golden Cockerel Hymn Book.

shaun a

Some entirely too-clever-for-their-own-good mathematicians have mapped this phenomenon as it appears elsewhere, notably in the works of M.C. Escher and Droste chocolate boxes.

http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/

Don’t miss the truly disturbing video demonstration of said infinite regress. Enough to make one swear off quoting Ginsberg forever, it is.

Paul D

I had a maths teacher who wore a t-shirt with a picture of a t-shirt on it, and that pictured t-shirt had a picture of a t-shirt on, and so on.

Pupils who had seen the Twilight Zone lived in constant fear of turning their head around quickly enough to see a huge version of themselves looking down at them.

[anon]