Elf Sternberg

"And indeed, this is not a pipe. This is a painting of a pipe. Right? Well, actually that's wrong. This is not a painting of a pipe, this is a drawing of a painting of a pipe. N'est-ce pas? Nope, wrong again. It's a printed copy of a drawing of a painting of a pipe. Ten copies, actually. Six, if you fold back the pages. Do you hear what I've saying? If you do, have your ears checked, because no one said a word." (Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics)

And I've just reproduced a paragraph where McCloud discussing the implications of looking at printed copies of a drawing of a painting of a pipe. Oy, vey!