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Through the looking-glass

Book • 1871
In this sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', Alice climbs through a mirror and enters a world where everything is reversed, much like a reflection.

Here, she finds herself in a land laid out like a giant chessboard, where she must navigate to the eighth rank to become a queen.

Along her journey, she meets a variety of bizarre characters, including the Red Queen, the White Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and Humpty Dumpty.

The story is filled with Carroll's signature nonsensical logic, word play, and imaginative world-building.

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Mentioned in 18 episodes

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Sahil Bloom
when discussing the concept of the Red Queen effect.
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Mentioned as a book written by Lewis Carroll where Alice is standing in her room talking to her cat.
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Franziska Kohlt
as a forthcoming companion book to Alice in Wonderland.
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Eddie Pinero
quotes Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass" to illustrate the idea that the difference between possible and impossible is our willingness to embrace chaos.
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Peter Hitchens
in relation to “Alice in Wonderland”.
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Angelina Stanford
in relation to mirrors and identity.
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Episode 73: Phantastes, Ch. 10-14
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Iain McGilchrist
in relation to the difficulties of language and the paradoxical nature of using it to express complex ideas.
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Mentioned by Charles as one of the most famous examples of fairy stories from the Victorian period.
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Mentioned in the context of the poem Jabberwocky.
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