En-place the unchallenged victor. En-abyme bottom of the barrel. Man there's nothing I hate more than nesting stories, or mise-en-abyme, or recursions, or anything like that. If I pick up a book and there's a mise-en-abyme you'd better believe I'm putting it back down!
There's always something at least a little arbitrary or haphazard about mythological hybrids – what is a catoblepas doing (a buffalo with the head of a pig) that either a buffalo or
