No problem =) And there is no sarcasm hidden in my comment - it really was interesting to read in more detail.

In our western culture there seems to be a widespread idea that circularity is somehow inherently bad - we'd like to see our argumentation, our stories, and our projects starting from a solid ground and then advancing towards the goal in a straight line without unnecessary sidesteps, without wasting time in making loops, without boring repetition or anything.

But I'm not that sure if there really is a reason to stick with that metaphor =) In my teenage years I read several books by Salman Rushdie, and it was somehow very enchanting how he tells a story in a circular manner - over the course of the book, same incidents get told several times, but every time each repetition adds something, or tells it from a slightly different perspective. I found that nice, it kind of a manages to deliver the subtle connections between past and present events. And Joseph Heller does something similar in his book Catch-22; he often returns to events he already told, just telling them from a point of view of some other character on the scene. It is a very nice way to illustrate how different people see the same event differently =)

Ah, so, all in all - I've noticed that I tend to repeat myself, too =) Sometimes on purpose, sometimes because I simply don't remember what I've already told. Maybe that is just natural for us humans =)