Sukie had always said that the Alice books were the Old and New Testaments for ghosts-which Pete had never understood; after all, Lewis Carroll hadn't been dead yet when he'd written them. (Tim Powers)

Sukie had always said that the Alice books were the Old and New Testaments for ghosts-which Pete had never understood; after all, Lewis Carroll hadn't been dead yet when he'd written them.

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