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Updated: May 3, 2025

So you see it is a nest within a nest, a whole nest of nests; like Vishnu Sarma's fables, or Scheherazade's stories, you can never find where one leaves off and another begins, they shut so one into the other. No wonder the children and philosophers are they who ask, whether the egg comes from the bird, or the bird from the egg. Yes, it is a Heimskringla, a world-circle, a home-circle, this nest.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860