Synchronicity: until Thursday night I believe I had never heard of nested Chinese boxes, just Russian (матрёшка) dolls. Then I watch The Man from Earth, with the line, "You know those Chinese boxes, one, inside the other, inside the other, inside the other…?" Now barely a day later, on p. 32 of this edition: "…the one author as lying inside the other, as in a Chinese-box puzzle."
— Jul 05, 2025 03:40AM
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