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SVG inspired by Quine's paradox
/**
* SVG inspired by Quine's paradox
*/
svg {
display: block;
margin: 40px auto;
font: 83px sans-serif;
}
<!-- Does not work in Safari, no clue why (thx @thomasqbrady) -->
<svg width="600" height="600">
<defs>
<path id="textpath" d="M 100,300 a 200,200 0 1,1 0,1" />
</defs>
<text transform="rotate(90,300,300)">
<textPath spacing="auto" xlink:href="#textpath">
circular reasoning works because
</textPath>
</text>
</svg>
// alert('Hello world!');
{"view":"split-vertical","fontsize":"100","seethrough":"","prefixfree":"1","page":"html"}
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adius commented Feb 2, 2015

Can you add a screenshot please. Does not seem to work in the latest chrome and firefox versions.

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@ad-si here it is:

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