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There is something beguiling about paradox. The visual paradoxes of Maurits Escher’s prints never fail to entice the eye. Poems such as Robert Graves’ Warning to Children, which play with the paradox of infinite regress, make the head spin. Paradox lies at the heart of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, one of the 20\(^{th}\) century’s greatest novels. My favorite paradox, though, is that of Fermi.
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Webb, S. (2015). Where Is Everybody?. In: If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13236-5_1
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