Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Taxed Beyond Belief (2002)
“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
"Recursive Structures and Processes"
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
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