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"The Red Queen theory is that species have to keep running just to stay still, like the character in Lewis Carroll's book 'Through the Looking-Glass,'" said lead author James Saulsbury, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at KU.

Carroll’s stories so captivated them that they named themselves after his book “Through the Looking-Glass,” the sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

She said that collecting can be “an exercise in autobiography” — a way of seeing facets of their own experience refracted through the looking-glass of another’s life.

The following summer, she began a residency at the Stratford Festival playing the lead in a production of “Alice Through the Looking-Glass.”

It’s telling, however, that the most gut-punching detail of this essay is the fact that Polley’s departure from “Alice Through the Looking-Glass” caused a subsequent run of the show to be canceled.