At any page a book should manage to begin, in each event the whole story contained. It would mean to write a spherical book... Such a many-headed and hidden beginning would be like a nerve-cell reaching out its fibers, dendrites and axons to other areas and thus forming a living nervous system. That would allow for a reading in different directions, with the exception of the one from front to back, the most unproductive direction in worldly affairs.
Botho Strauss, 'Oniritti Cave Paintings', 2016
M.C. Escher (detail)