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Boast not that you have encircled the world in your travels, for it is only the sun and the moon and the stars that really make the journey around it.
•Vita Secundi Philosophi (C2?).

And is our life, then, bounded by a circle like the earth? Do we, unconsciously, continue to walk towards the spot from which we started? And as we travel nearer and nearer to the grave, do we again draw closer, ever closer, to the cradle?
•Dumas, The Wolf-Leader (1857).

I take my circle to be abov...