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I will also repeat my inital reason for posting the Adams quote. It was to show the influence of Carroll on Adams writing. Both used the ridiculously elaborate sentence structures to entertain. Apparently, their intent seems to have been lost on some readers. This point was clear to me from the post, and I thought it was pretty certain that Mr. Adams put the ref. in as yes, a joke. MY point was that I dislike Carroll's (and pretty much anybody's) obfuscatory writing, thus I am not familiar line by line with his work, thus I probably wouldn't get a reference to it by Adams or anybody, and I don't want to have to stop enjoying the reading, break off the story line in my head, and start wondering what a certain sentence or paragraph might be a reference to. That's all.
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