From John Bonar
Melanie Bayley’s article on Alice in Wonderland shows how authors can use fiction and satire to protest against goings-on that they profoundly dislike, without getting themselves into too much trouble (19 December 2009, p 38).
As a sequel, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) wrote the less well-known Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. If he were alive today, he might be tempted to write a further sequel satirising quantum mechanics and some of the new mathematics and physics of the 20th century. I’d suggest Alice in Imaginary Land as a suitable title, with characters that include a white rabbit, representing Einstein, who if late for a meeting could slow down time in Imaginary Land by hopping very fast.
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