Ouroboros update

A reader writes in: "I can beat that Great Expectations thing—in high school, we were not only introduced to Romeo and Juliet through West Side Story, we were introduced to WSS thru the novelisation of the film."

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"What is time? It is a snake that eats its own tail . . . "
—Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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BONUS QUESTION ANSWERED:



NEW BONUS QUESTION:

Who wrote this?

Technically, the circle which the present corollary [a short story of the author's] describes (its last sentence existing implicitly before its first one) belongs to the same serpent-biting-its-tail type as the circular structure of the fourth chapter in [another book of the author's] (or, for that matter, Finnegans Wake, which it preceded).

This is the final round, all shall be revealed next week!