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A review by bimblinghill
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
4.0
I read these as a child and I remember them working as novels for children, but they're so much more than that.
I've since had a science education and I see quotes and scenes from these books coming up all the time as we search for analogies of the weirdness we uncover as we grow our understanding of the universe. I'm not sure of the truth of this but I did hear that Carroll specifically set out to critique some of the ideas that were at the time of writing coming out of the study of quantum mechanics.
All that goes to say that these are among the select classics that expand the conceptual vocabulary of your mind. Absolutely worth re-reading as an adult.
I've since had a science education and I see quotes and scenes from these books coming up all the time as we search for analogies of the weirdness we uncover as we grow our understanding of the universe. I'm not sure of the truth of this but I did hear that Carroll specifically set out to critique some of the ideas that were at the time of writing coming out of the study of quantum mechanics.
All that goes to say that these are among the select classics that expand the conceptual vocabulary of your mind. Absolutely worth re-reading as an adult.