Chapter 4. What the Tortoise Said to Laurie
Laurie took a left turn at the sign marked “Recursion Junction.” After cresting a little hill, she ended up at . . . Recursion Junction!
“Is this the same place, Xor?” Laurie asked. “It looks like it.”
“Try a right turn,” he said.
She did, but after a short while they were back where they started. When she tried a second, and a third, and twenty-seventh time, they always came back to Recursion Junction.
“It seems as though I am going somewhere else, but we always come back to the same place. What’s going on?” Laurie wondered.
They went around . . . . . . and around . . . . . . and around . . . . . . and around so many times that Laurie lost count. ...
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