Using the migration Lemmy-wards to actually join in participating in some communities that I've traditionally just lurked in. This is Fitch at his desk - art by Hinotama. The original design was done for me by StampmatS and I love it so much.
I'm going to piggyback off Douglas Hofstadter and say the works of M.C Escher - things like Reptiles in particular. It's the same idea of starting with a simple, often repetitive, theme, then developing it into more-complex versions that still have the influence of the original.
The story in Alice's Restaurant is (mostly) a true story, and Judge James Hannon was a real person who was really blind. He played himself in the movie version of Alice's Restaurant (as did Officer Obie, under the logic that it'd better for him to make fun of himself than for someone else to do it)