In this real play D&D podcast, our heroes make their way through the world solving mysteries, saving royal families, and awkwardly forcing strangers to hold their hand. New episodes on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.
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Learn how the smartest people in the world are using AI to think, create, and relate. Each week I interview founders, filmmakers, writers, investors, and others about how they use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney in their work and in their lives. We screen-share through their historical chats and then experiment with AI live on the show. Join us to discover how AI is changing how we think about our world—and ourselves. For more essays, interviews, and experiments at the forefron ...
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The Wonderland Challenge 2: Alice Through The Looking Glass Audiobook with 174 actors in aid of Cancer Research UK Hello, I’m Brad Shaw, voice actor and founder of VO training community Wonderland VO. At the beginning of the first lock down, I was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma and had to undergo a year of immunotherapy. Just as I was getting over that, I got prostate cancer and had an operation just over a year ago. Then more recently, I heard that the stage 3 melanoma had returned and so ...
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Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything - Ep. 27
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This episode is sponsored by Command Bar, an embedded AI copilot designed to improve user experience on your web or mobile site. Find them here: https://www.commandbar.com/copilot/ Dwarkesh Patel is on a quest to know everything. He’s using LLMs to enhance how he reads, learns, thinks, and conducts interviews. Dwarkesh is a podcaster who’s intervie…
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Midnight Phoenix EP15- Rhymin & stealin
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The time for the party to make their way to the Ne' er do well is here. But first, they need a distraction to steal a boat.
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Something a little different today. Nick from Deep Dark Games guides us through his new tabletop RPG home there. We create our home countries, our mechs and pilots, and battle kaiju. Buy home - HOME - Mech x Kaiju Mapmaking RPG | Deep Dark Games
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The Internet Creator's Guide to the Future - Ep. 26 with Steph Smith
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Steph Smith is the ultimate internet explorer. I spent an hour talking to her about the future of creating on the internet in the age of AI. She’s our first-ever repeat guest, and if you watch the episode you’ll see why: It’s a curious, fun, experimental romp through the best of the digital world. We try out four underrated AI products, go through …
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The AI-powered Era of Scientific Discovery Is Here - Ep. 25 with Dr. Bradley Love
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Dr. Bradley Love is building a tool that can predict the future. Dr. Bradley Love is transforming neuroscience research with AI. He's the creator of BrainGPT, a large language model that can predict the results of neuroscience studies—before they’re conducted. And it performs better than human experts. We spent 90 minutes exploring how AI is reshap…
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Midnight Phoenix EP14- The episode Midnight Phoenix, during the season of the Midnight Phoenix, on the Midnight Phoenix podcast.
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The party finally comes face to face with the Midnight Phoenix.
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She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures—As A Side Hustle - Ep. 24 with Claire Vo
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Claire Vo built ChatPRD—an on-demand chief product officer powered by AI. It’s now used by over 10,000 product managers and is pulling in six figures in revenue. The best part? Claire has a demanding day job as the CPO at LaunchDarkly. So she built all of ChatPRD herself—over the weekend—with AI. I sat down with Claire to talk about how ChatPRD wor…
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Midnight Phoenix EP13- Life Ah, Finds A Way
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Banks the butler sends the party on a quest to find ingredients for a potion to help Master Baldwin's illness. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/h4HVG3Wvth
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What Do LLMs Tell Us About the Nature of Language—And Ourselves? - Ep. 23 with Robin Sloan
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An interview with best-selling sci-fi novelist Robin Sloan One of my favorite fiction writers, New York Times best-selling author Robin Sloan, just wrote the first novel I’ve seen that’s inspired by LLMs. The book is called Moonbound, and Robin originally wanted to write it with language models. He tried doing this in 2016 with a rudimentary model …
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Is NotebookLM—Google's Research Assistant—the Ultimate Tool For Thought? - Ep.22 with Steven Johnson
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We use it to find bestselling author Steven Berlin Johnson’s next project. I sat down with bestselling author Steven Johnson to see if we could come up with a concept for his next project—using AI. The results were amazing. We loaded 200,000 words of NASA transcripts and all of Steven’s reading notes since 1999 into NotebookLM, Google’s personalize…
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Midnight Phoenix EP12- And at your funeral I will sing the requiem
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Samm Burger's best friend Gunk is laid to rest. And the party investigates how the devil was summoned.
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Learn how the smartest people in the world are using AI to think, create, and relate. Each week I interview founders, filmmakers, writers, investors, and others about how they use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney in their work and in their lives. We screen-share through their historical chats and then experiment with AI live on the sho…
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Kevin Roose Has 18 New Best Friends—And They're All AIs - Ep. 21
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New York Times journalist Kevin Roose has 18 new friends—none of whom are human. Kevin formed a collection of “friends”—AI personas with distinct personalities and backstories—using apps like Kindroid and Nomi. Among these were fitness guru Jared, San Francisco-based therapist Peter, and pragmatic trial lawyer Anna. He talked to them every day for …
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Midnight Phoenix EP11- There Goes Mr. Humbug
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The Nob-Goblin visits two party members while the others clean up the mess from the bone devil fight.
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Is Prompting the Future of Coding? - Ep. 20 with Nick Dobos
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Nick Dobos, maker of the #1 programming GPT, on prompt-gramming with AI You can go from having an idea to deploying a live website in minutes. All you have to do is prompt Grimoire, the number-one custom GPT for programming, with an image or even a single word about your idea. As you watch the LLM process your request, Grimoire works with a web hos…
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Midnight Phoenix EP10- The Devil went down to Georgia
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The Party comes to terms with Halfpint's past, and a commotion at the bar requires immediate attention.
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He Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions - Ep. 19 with Alan Cowen
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The future of AI technology isn’t just faster or more powerful—it’s empathetic. My guest for this episode, Alan Cowen, is leading the charge with the first-ever emotionally intelligent AI. Alan is the co-founder and CEO of Hume, an AI research laboratory developing models trained to identify and measure expressions of emotion from voice inflections…
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Reid Hoffman on How AI is Answering Our Biggest Questions - Ep. 18 with Reid Hoffman
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Learn how to use philosophy to run your business more effectively Reid Hoffman thinks a masters in philosophy will help you run your business better than an MBA. Reid is the cofounder of LinkedIn, a partner at venture capital firm Greylock Partners, the host of the Masters of Scale podcast, and a prolific author. But before he did any of these thin…
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The party interrogates suspects in the trident's kingdom. And Half Pint's past is revealed.
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This Best-selling Author Wrote a Book in 30 Days—With ChatGPT - Ep. 17 with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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Seth-Stephens Davidowitz wrote a book in 30 days—and he did it with ChatGPT. Seth is a data scientist, economist, and author who challenged himself to write a book—Who Makes the NBA?—in less than 1 month after realizing how fast he could work by using ChatGPT plugin Advanced Data Analysis. But along the way he discovered something else: Writing wit…
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Midnight Phoenix EP8- Highway to the Danger Zone
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After meeting a carpenter who promises to help fix up the manner, the party finds a name for their adventuring group and meets some new allies.
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Take Your Business From Zero to One With AI - Ep. 16 with Nicholas Thorne
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Nicholas Thorne is building Squarespace for the AI age. It’s called Audos, and it’s an AI chatbot to help any entrepreneur go from idea to: - Pitch deck - Working website - Custom GPT - User interviews with real customers All in just a few minutes. And he did it using ChatGPTapp. It’s AI all the way down—and it’s one of the most impressive AI busin…
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Prozac and ChatGPT: How Technology is Changing the Way We See Ourselves - Ep. 15 with Peter D. Kramer
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Antidepressants changed my life. I have OCD and antidepressants did what nearly a decade of therapy, meditation, and supplements couldn’t: they allowed me to live my life without being in a 24/7 spiral. (Bonus: they actually made therapy and meditation far more helpful once they started to work.) I think antidepressants are seriously misunderstood.…
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Midnight Phoenix EP7- It's all about the game, and how you play it
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The carnival festivities are in full swing, but sadly they may take an unfortunate turn.
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How to Run a Profitable One-person Internet Business Using AI - Ep. 14 with Ben Tossell
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You can build and run a one-person internet business that earns half a million in annual revenue—with AI. Ben Tossell showed me exactly how in this episode. Ben is the founder of Ben’s Bites—one of the best daily AI newsletters out there, which I love reading every day—and an investor in a number of promising early-stage AI startups. Ben is also an…
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Midnight Phoenix EP6- Oh Oh Oh, For The Longest Time
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The secrets of the locked door are revealed and The Party goes to the Tastiest Lad Festival
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Can Gemini 1.5 Pro Beat Our Best Stock Trade? - Ep. 13 with Jesse Beyroutey
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I made the greatest trade of my life with Jesse Beyroutey in 2019. We bought Nvidia shares when they were trading at $33. They’re worth nearly $800 today. I sat down with Jesse to top that trade in 90 minutes using Gemini Pro 1.5’s incredible 1 million token context window—and make a $1,000 trade live on the show. Jesse is a managing partner at IA …
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How a Hollywood Director Uses AI to Make Movies - Ep. 12 with Dave Clark
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You can break into Hollywood with a movie you made alone in your room without using a single camera. Dave Clark showed me how live on this show. Dave Clark is a film director and commercial director with experience working with brands like HP and Intel who is now experimenting with cutting-edge AI technology. He recently produced a popular sci-fi s…
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She’s Running a Business, Writing a Book, and Getting a PhD—with ChatGPT - Ep. 11 with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Are you a curious person with a lot of ideas and little time? Anne-Laure Le Cunff can show you how to do it all. Anne-Laure is the founder of one of my favorite internet communities for curious minds, Ness Labs, a prolific writer, and a neuroscience PhD candidate. She’s also writing a book, Liminal Minds, that’ll be out later this year. And she sai…
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Midnight Phoenix EP5- Under the Sea
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Party learns of an upcoming festival called "the Tastiest Lad Festival". Also, they must venture into the water to fetch an item for a vendor.
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How to Find Your Next Big Idea Hiding on the Internet - Ep. 10 with Steph Smith
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The next big idea is hiding in plain sight. It’s right here, scattered across the internet in incoherent fragments. Steph Smith, my guest for this episode, knows how to connect the dots. Steph Smith is a prolific online creator, host of the a16Z podcast, author of a book about building a successful blog called Doing Content Right, and creator of In…
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"HOME" the TTRPG. Interview with game creator
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HOME is a roleplaying and mapmaking game where you are a Mech pilot who must protect your home from a Kaiju invasion. We interview Nick the game creator. We talk about how the game is played, build our mechs and kaiju, and ask about his inspiration for the game. The Kickstarter is now live. If you back the game tell him we sent ya! Kickstarter link…
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How to Make a Video Game With ChatGPT in 60 Minutes - Ep. 9 with Logan Kilpatrick
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You can make a video game without writing a single line of code. Logan Kilpatrick uses ChatGPT to show me how. Logan is OpenAI’s first developer relations and advocacy hire. A big part of Logan’s job is supporting the community of builders using ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the OpenAI API. He’s also deeply invested in growing this community, convinced that…
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Midnight Phoenix EP4- So Fresh, So Clean
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The Party looks to find a living situation for Gyro. He claims the attic, there the group finds a new friend. Join our discord- https://discord.gg/rsqaPVVVhd
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ChatGPT for Radical Self-betterment - Ep. 8 with Gena Gorlin
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Dr. Gena Gorlin (https://twitter.com/Gena_I_Gorlin) is a clinical psychologist at UT Austin whose goal is to raise the ceiling on human potential. I sat down with her to discuss how ChatGPT has become a key tool in her quest for radical self-betterment. In this episode, she feeds ChatGPT a list of her old journal entries, and it conducts the most t…
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Economist Tyler Cowen on How ChatGPT Is Changing Your Job - Ep. 7 with Tyler Cowen
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Tyler Cowen is an economist who has been thinking about the impact of technology on life, work, and the economy for the past decade. He is a prolific writer behind the leading economic blog Marginal Revolution, a professor of economics at George Mason University, and the author of 17 books. In this episode, I dive deep with him on how ChatGPT will …
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How David Perell Uses ChatGPT to Write for Millions - Ep. 6 with David Perell
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David Perell is one of the best known internet writers of his generation. He’s amassed almost a half million followers on X, hosts the popular podcast How I Write, and founded Write of Passage, which has taught thousands of students how to be digital writers. We go deep on using ChatGPT to: Doing deep reading of old books Finding anecdotes that spr…
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Midnight Phoenix EP3- Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest!
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The Party finally arrives at the prison island. They meet the owners of a local tavern and look to find a place to live. Join our Discord- https://discord.gg/8NEVKZUF7m Logan's dice store- Mingobroresin.com Ben's Book- https://a.co/d/dx2Ztm6
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You Can Build an App in 60 Minutes with ChatGPT - Ep. 5 with Geoffrey Litt
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This show might be a first in the history of podcasts: Researcher Geoffrey Litt and I built an app together using ChatGPTapp and Replit in under 60 minutes—while we talked. We wanted to show how AI and ChatGPT change who gets to build software and how they usher in a world where everyone can modify and remix the apps they use every day. So we…
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Midnight Phoenix EP2- Secret agent man
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The party gets to know one another a little more and learns of each other's skills. Samm Burger is sent on a mission of espionage, Something he is not the best at.
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Alice Through The Looking Glass with 175 readers in aid of Cancer Research UK Chapter 10 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll is titled "Shaking." In this two-sentence chapter, Alice lifts the Red Queen off the table and "[shakes] her backward and forward with all her might." As she does so, the Red Queen becomes shorter, fatter, softer,…
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Alice Through The Looking Glass with 175 readers in aid of Cancer Research UK Chapter 11 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll is titled "Waking." The entire chapter is the continuation of the final sentence in Chapter 10: "—and it really was a kitten, after all." Please donate here: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/brads-givin…
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Alice Through The Looking Glass with 175 readers in aid of Cancer Research UK Chapter 12 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll is titled "Which dreamed it." The last chapter opens with Alice rubbing her eyes and chastising Kitty, the black kitten. Alice is convinced Kitty was with her in the Looking-glass world and decides Kitty was, in f…
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Midnight Phoenix EP1- Come Sail Away With Me
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The start of our second campaign is here. Meet our new heroes and learn of their secrets that got them on a prison ship heading to the prison island of Salt Born. Ben's New Book- https://a.co/d/6TPDTCz Logan's dice- https://www.mingobroresin.com/ join our discord- https://discord.gg/sVyJ34ybV3 Support our Patreon- patreon.com/lostsleep…
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Alice Through The Looking Glass with 175 readers in aid of Cancer Research UK Chapter 9 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll is titled "Queen Alice." In this final main chapter, Alice becomes a queen in the chess game and participates in a bizarre, dreamlike trial. The trial involves strange characters, including the White Rabbit, the Ma…
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How to Use ChatGPT as a Copilot for Learning - Ep. 4 with Nathan Labenz
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Sometimes ChatGPT is a copilot, sitting beside you, taking directions, and guiding you as you fly through your work. At other times, it’s a subordinate. It’s not just an assistant or a companion, but a trusted deputy, someone—or something—that’ll heed instructions and complete tasks. This is how our guest, Nathan Labenz, thinks about ChatGPT. In th…
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Season 4 is the start of our second campaign. It takes place 200 years before our first story. It's a great starting point for new listeners and a fun prequel for current fans to learn more about the world our DM Ben has made. Please join us this season for the story of the Midnight Phoenix!
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Alice Through The Looking Glass with 175 readers in aid of Cancer Research UK Chapter 8 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll is titled "It's My Own Invention." In this chapter, Alice finds herself in a garden with a garden of talking flowers. She has a humorous conversation with the Red Queen, who presents her with a riddle and then reve…
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Alice Through The Looking Glass with 175 readers in aid of Cancer Research UK Chapter 7 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll is titled "The Lion and the Unicorn." In this chapter, Alice encounters a procession of bizarre characters, including the White King, the White Queen, the Lion, and the Unicorn, all of whom are involved in a comica…
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Alice Through The Looking Glass with 175 readers in aid of Cancer Research UK Chapter 6 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll is titled "Humpty Dumpty." In this chapter, Alice comes across the famous nursery rhyme character, Humpty Dumpty, who is sitting on a wall. Humpty Dumpty discusses the meaning of words and explains the various ways…
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