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Title: Written for a small but elite audience
Review: Being a fan of Alice and Alice-like books ("Zazi dans le Metro", and moreloosely "Lolita") it was striking to see fused with brilliant execution manyof the ideas of Alice & Imagination with a thorough bite on the, uh, "organic".I say for a small audience because there is simply too much going on, which foradults I can imagine might deaden things if you don't absorb all the relationships,and I think few will connect Hofstadter, SASL, Borges, LSD, Swift, Feynman, AIDS, etc.thoroughly & completely, with relish (and strawberry jam).He writes not as "Alice" updated, but like a Boris Vian updated.
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