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After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.

 
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Jonathan Swift | GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

"So, naturalists observe, a flea,
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum."

So, naturalists observe, a flea,
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite ‘em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
— Jonathan Swift | GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

Cutely, this quatrain is quoted by Geoffrey West in SCALE.

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