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Word: lookingglass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, the most interesting laugh is the one elicited by the truly bizarre mistake, because such a mistake seems to disclose a whole new world of logic and possibility, a deranged double for the life that is. What Lewis Carroll displayed through the lookingglass, verbal error also often displays by conjuring up ideas so supremely nutty that the laughter it evokes is sublime. The idea that Pepsi might actually bring one back from the grave encourages an entirely new view of experience. In such a view it is perfectly possible to lust after the Polish future, to watch the Tigers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oops! How's That Again? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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