Sex and death and humor and recursion

Much humor— certainly much of mine— is based on subliminal menace of unspoken fears

And other than sex (explicit in L'eggs) and death (implicit), what is more menacing than recursion?

In the News

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  "L'eggs all the way down" is a of infinitely recursive pantyhose, introduced in 1969 by Hanes, which radically changed the recursive hosiery marketplace. The novel developments were the egg-shaped recursive plastic product container, the shift to consignment sales in drug stores and groceries, and the in-store "Matryoshka doll" product racks designed to emphasize the infinitely self-referential egg shape.

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  Bob & Carol & Ted & Bugsy is a romantic crime drama film starring Elliot Gould, Natalie Wood, Dyan Cannon, and Warren Beatty.

Fiction cross-reference

• Bob & Carol & Ted & Bugsy
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

External links

• Post @ Twitter (26 December 2022)

• Recursion @ Wikipedia