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Man Booker 2015: not much better than Lewis Carroll's caucus race

  • Written by: The Conversation
image'Alice thought the whole thing very absurd.'

The caucus race that Alice happens upon in Alice in Wonderland has no start line and no finish line – perhaps because Lewis Carroll knew that we cannot agree where such lines might be drawn. As a result, everyone wins, in one fashion or another.

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