Imagine that inside this labyrinth you see another one, but on a smaller scale, reserved only, say, for cats, dogs, and mice—and then, inside that, one for ants and flies, then microbes and the whole invisible world—down and down the scale, for once the labyrinthine principle is allowed, don't you see, why stop at any scale in particular? It's self-repeating. Exactly the spot where we are now is a microcosm of all Venice.
—Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
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