Footnotes on a life ill-lived #5.
4 One is put in mind of the anecdote related by Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time, in which a woman asserts that the world rests upon the back of a giant tortoise. When asked what the tortoise is standing on, she asserts, “It’s just tortoises all the way to the bottom!” Expression appears to be tortoises all the way to the bottom (Hawking 1).