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Barwise recounts about the above:<ref>J. Bariwse, ''Admissible Sets and Structures'', p.364. Perspectives in Mathematical Logic (1975).</ref>
: The remarkable argument that strongly compact cardinals exist "by analogy with \(\omega\)" always reminds me of the goofang, described in ''The Book of Imaginary Beings'', by Jorge Luis Borges:
:: The yarns and tall tales of the lumber camps of Wisconsin and Minnesota include some singular creatures, in which, surely, no one ever believed...
:: There's another fish, the Goofang, that swims backward to keep the water out of its eyes. It's described as "about the size of a sunfish, only much bigger".
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