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.