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the loop with the broken exit, the road that runs out of patience before you do

means Having no end or limit — going on and on, whether in space, time, or sheer repetition.

from A plain old English compound: 'end' (Old English 'ende,' the boundary or finish, from a Proto-Germanic root shared with German 'Ende' and Dutch 'einde') plus the suffix '-less,' meaning 'without' (Old English '-leas,' a cousin of 'loose' — to be 'less' of something is to be loosed from it). So 'endless' is literally 'without an end,' a word the language has carried, unchanged in spirit, for over a thousand years.

math trick
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities
impossible objects
Penrose stairs climb forever and arrive nowhere
in your skull
Brains can't truly imagine infinity, only gesture at it
summer myth
The 'endless summer' film chased waves across both hemispheres
hard limit
The universe likely isn't endless, just expanding faster than light catches up
for instance

eternal flame at arlington — lit continuously since john f. kennedy's burial in 1963

loop system of chicago — elevated train circuit continuously operating since 1897

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