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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.
Just as she was about to give up, there was a gigantic smashing sound, like a stack of plates
falling to the floor.
They both jumped in fright, and for a moment Xor accidentally turned the same color as
Laurie's shirt. They looked around for the source of the noise but couldn't find it. To their
surprise, the next turn put them on a different road.
This road was neat and straight, and it seemed to stretch on forever. Up ahead, a man in a
Greek helmet was riding on a large Round Green animal with a Shell. (Eponymous might
have called the creature a turtle , though she wouldn't have been quite right.) The two were
moving slowly and steadily away.
“Hey! Wait!” Laurie shouted, running up to them.
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