How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?
倘若根本没有中心,只有一条接一条的小径,整个世界是一座没有尽头、也没有出口的迷宫,又会怎样?
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Crabbed Age and Youth —