I would guess that most, if not all, of my non-fiction books (by everyone from Dennett to Dawkins) reference Alice in Wonderland in someway, so no surprise, but still interesting, to read the other day that the Alice books are the third most-quoted texts in the English language, after the Christian Bible and Shakespeare.
Amazing that a children's story has almost as much to say about the world as one of the world's best playwrights, or one of the most ancient religious texts. Curiouser and curiouser as she would say.
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