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 | | He went on to devour J G Ballard and Philip K Dick, but the book that he says remains "really embedded on my cerebellum" is Alice in Wonderland. |
 | | He was recently asked to write an introduction to a new edition of Carroll's classic, and he says: "All the hallmarks of the way my fictional sensibility developed are in there: obsessions with scale, sacrificing the sensible in favour of the intelligible or vice versa, preoccupations with transmogrification and with different levels of reality." |
 | | Despite being very good at English, he never wanted to read the subject at university. |
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