 Within this narrative, which itself is somewhat self-referential, the two characters find a book entitled "Provocative Adventures of Achilles and the Tortoise Taking Place in Sundry Spots of the Globe", which they begin to read, the Tortoise taking the part of Achilles, and Achilles taking the part of the Tortoise.Italo Calvino's experimental book, "If on a winter's night a traveler", is about a reader, addressed in the second person, trying to read the very same book, but being interrupted by ten other recursively nested incomplete stories.Robert Altman's satirical noir "The Player" about Hollywood ends with the antihero being pitched a movie version of his own story, complete with an unlikely happy ending.