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Fiction

Alice in Blunderland

Peter Rickman travels through the looking glass in search of some of philosophy’s pitfalls.

Alice picked a book from her father’s study. It had a forbidding title – Contemporary Philosophy – but she was not easily deterred. She persisted through the afternoon and fell exhausted into a troubled sleep. Once again she dreamed. As she walked into the garden she was faced with a bird and it winked at her.

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