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A book with no changes

Can anyone think of a book that ends exactly where it began for all the characters?

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For all the characters, probably not, but in terms of plot it's practically a leitmotif of Raymond Queneau's work. Several of his novels, Witchgrass, The Sunday of Life, Pierrot Mon Ami, etc. end up...

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there is a chapter in Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter - with the tortoise and the hare - that illustrates this brilliantly....they end up where they started,...

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I have heard Finnigans Wake does just that and looking at just the last and first page it seems it could be true.

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Most of PG Wodehouse's Jeeves novels leave Bertie exactly as before, if a bit shaken by a close brush with marriage and light a few bob as reward to his quick-witted butler.

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this is a cheat but my old fav slaughterhouse 5. think about it.

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"Waiting for Godot"? ; )

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