In our family this is the corracle phenomenon - named after an incident in which my mother noticed a picture of someone rowing in a corracle, just a small detail in a big landscape painting. Her reaction was “A round boat? How would you go forward? Surely nobody was stupid enough to use round boats, at least not twice!” Thereafter, there were corracles everywhere, examples of corracles in cultures from China to Western Europe to the pre-Columbian Americas.
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