{"product_id":"9781098814441","title":"...The Ka Of Alice Liddell: (A Satire Of Sorts)","description":"It so happened that, on no particular day, the KA of a particular child-friend of Charles Dodgson, alias Lewis Carroll, escaped from the psyche-and-person of Alice Liddell, the second of three sisters, as helter-skelter she skedaddled from the nursery in order to become her own person. However, in that moment when this young girl fled her nursery, she had somehow-and-curiously exorcised the KA of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' - which is, the immortal part of every fairy-creature. And once that Ka-of-Alice had been set free, it began to make its own mischief in this world; for whenever this KA enters someone's psyche, it also takes possession of the body - in exactly the same way as an unquiet spirit possesses the medium during a séance.Preface One answer to the question as to why my story is 'a satire of sorts' is that its tangled tale presents a series of ironic perspectives: it begins as a conventional narrative and ends with a folder of clinical notes by an educational therapist - to which is appended the libretto for an unperformed, Victorian operetta. One such an underpinning irony is that the narrator (a self-obsessed academic) fails to register what is happening to himself when, by focusing exclusively upon the Nonsense of Lewis Carroll's Alice, he further-deconstructs his own fragile psyche; and by fixating on the paradox of adolescence (in adults), he experiences a form of psychological displacement. In short, this fiction is nothing other than a celebration of the profound absurdity of our common Being. Such a narrative is dramatic, subverting conventional expectations and propounding its sophisticated stupidities, while at the same time it constructs, through a tangle of correspondences and associations, the impossible configuration of a Piranesi prison or the illogical complexity of a drawing by Escher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eClisby Carr\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eIndependently Published\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003eMay 28, 2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e237 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eISBN-10: \u003c\/b\u003e1098814444\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/b\u003e9781098814441\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50355449463089,"sku":"9781098814441","price":13.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/8215\/8385\/files\/9781098814441__29037.jpg?v=1732343005","url":"https:\/\/www.recomparo.com\/products\/9781098814441","provider":"ReComparo.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}