Thanks for that, fantasyfan. I wonder if we can even extend that to the two realities presented in
Sylvie and Bruno? The Mister Sir who was a looker-on in Outland as an expression of Carroll and the one with the heart issue, friend of the doctor, as Dodgson? The first book had more Carroll in the mix than the second.
I was struck by his reference in the introduction to how after
Alice, the same story was taken up by so many others as to kill it effectively, and wondered if George du Maurier adapted from
Sylvie the concept of "dreaming true" in
Peter Ibbetson, the story where an imprisoned man lived his real life in his dreams? It was published two years after
Sylvie
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
The best parts were those set in Outland, and I was hoping (foolishly!) for a good dust-up to sort things out. It was not to be.
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You and I both. I was quite entranced by the beginning of
Sylvie and expected to love the book. I should have been warned by the introduction there were stormy seas ahead!