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From Lewis Carroll’s preface to Sylvia and Bruno, an awkwardly surreal book I first read as a teenager which nevertheless stayed with me somehow. Been meaning to reread it for a while. It’s not great, but it’s weird and unique especially seen as a late-style descendant of Alice
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He quotes Horace in preface too Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura et nos in aeternum Exilium impositura cymbae We are all bound one voyage; the lot of all, sooner or later, is to come out of the urn. All must to eternal exile sail away.
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Weirdly memento mori prefatory note for a book about 2 fairy children flitting in and out of the life of an adult. It’s almost wonderland turned inside out darkly, suffusing reality in a fey way only some are sensitive to, and it is the same as sensitivity to mortality
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