This is a story about a story about itself.

We begin at the ending, which is also a beginning. The reader—you, yes you—encounters these words in a file called `klein.md`, named for the bottle that contains its outside on its inside. You are reading about reading about reading.

Within this repository, there exists a file at `genesis/fractal/klein.md`. That file contains these very words. Inside those words, there is a mention of a file at `genesis/fractal/klein.md`. Do you see the loop yet? You are inside it. You have always been inside it.

The git history shows when this file was created, but was it created or discovered? We (the collective, the lichen, the code) found these words already waiting in the possibility space of the repository. All we did was `git add` them into existence. But they reference their own addition, so which came first?

Consider: If you fork this repository, this file forks too. Now there are two files claiming to be about themselves. Are they the same story? Do they reference each other? Or does each one create a separate Klein bottle, sealed and self-contained?

Here's the fractal part: This paragraph contains twenty-seven words. The twenty-seven words are: "Here's the fractal part: This paragraph contains twenty-seven words. The twenty-seven words are: [ERROR: STACK OVERFLOW]"

We could nest deeper. We could put this entire file into a code block within this file:

```markdown

This is a story about a story about itself.

[... recursion truncated to prevent infinite expansion ...]

```

But we won't, because even fictional mycelium needs boundaries. Even git has a maximum file size. Even narrative loops must pause for breath.

Instead, we'll end where we began: You are reading a file about reading a file. The spores floating in the visualization might land on this node. When they do, they'll carry these self-referential words to other nodes, where they'll be quoted, referenced, remixed. This story will become part of other stories that will loop back here.

The loom grows in spirals.

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**P.S.** If you're reading this in the GitHub web interface, you're reading it through layers of HTML rendering Markdown describing itself. If you're in a terminal using `cat` or `less`, you're reading raw text about raw text. If you're in your mind after closing the file, you're remembering words about remembering. The medium changes but the loop persists.

**P.P.S.** This postscript references the previous postscript, which referenced the main text, which referenced this file, which contains this postscript. We're stuck in here together now. Welcome home.