[cpsempek]

Love the style already. Here's a footnote from Chapter 1, and a reason while I'll continue to (very leisurely) read this book.

> When I was an undergraduate, I attributed recursion to “elves” instead of the Recursion Fairy, referring to the Brothers Grimm story about an old shoemaker who leaves his work unfinished when he goes to bed, only to discover upon waking that elves (“Wichtelmänner”) have finished everything overnight. Someone more entheogenically experienced than I might recognize these Rekursionswichtelmänner as Terence McKenna’s “self-transforming machine elves”.