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Vicious Circles and Infinity, Patrick Hughes and George Brecht’s 1978 anthology of paradoxes, begins with this sentence:

“The anthology has no particular axe to grind, apart from that of having no particular axe to grind.”

August 20, 2026August 19, 2026 | Oddities

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