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January 08, 2006
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
This was the first time I'd read Lewis Carroll's stories Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass in their entirety.
The paperback is old and full of brittle paper. The stories run on like someone's dream, but the jokes do not seem dreamlike. Were Dogdson's dreams full of language games and little girls? Apparently he also wrote whimsically about non-Euclidean geometries, and found them inferior to the original.
When they give me the MMPI and ask me whether I liked Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, I'll tell them I preferred Borges's Circular Ruins. Borges also sometimes found originals inferior to copies.
Posted by Mark at January 8, 2006 08:01 AM
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