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Through the Looking Glass: Finding Sense in Nonsense With Lewis Carroll and G.K. Chesterton

Through the Looking Glass: Finding Sense in Nonsense With Lewis Carroll and G.K. Chesterton

The world is upside down — it must be put on its head for us to see what it really is.

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One of my favorite quotes from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland runs like this:

“Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.”

“It makes perfect sense,” I thought after reading it. Since that fateful morning when she fo…

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