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Originally Posted by gmw
I actually thought it may come out to be more direct than that. A number of times I thought I was seeing links between the Outland characters and the contemporary world characters, that there may actually be others shifting in and out to the same Outland, if not at the same time ... indeed I got the feeling that, early on, Carroll may even have considered this. I think it might have made the book more interesting if he had done so.
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Yes, there was Mein Herr, who seemed to the narrator to be familiar, and who was perhaps another version of The Professor. That aspect is a bit reminiscent of the characters in
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.