Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Reading Notes Looking Glass Part A

The glass was beginning to melt away like a mist. Alice was through the glass and had jumped lightly down into the looking glass room. There was a fire in the fireplace. The pictures on the wall seemed to be alive.

Alice heard the Red King and Red Queen go past. A white pawn began screaming at the table behind Alice. The White Queen screamed "Oh my! My precious child!" Alice picked up the queen and set her on the table next to the pawn. Next Alice picked the king up more slowly and gently than she did the queen. She dusted all the ash off of him too.

The king takes out a notebook and begins writing a memo. Alice took his pencil and wrote "THE WHITE KNIGHT IS SLIDING DOWN THE POKER. HE BALANCES VERY BADLY" in his notebook.

There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and while she sat watching the White King she turned over the leaves to find some part that she could read. She told herself "it's all in some language I don't know. She realized she had to hold the book to a mirror because she was in the loking glass world. It was a poem about the Jabberwocky.

Alice realized she needed to hurry. She thought to herself "if I don't make haste I shall have to go back through the Looking-glass before I've seen what the rest of the house is like! Let's have a look at the garden first!" She was out of the room in a moment, and ran down stairs.

She wandered on until she came across two little fat men. One of them had "DUM"embroidered on his collar, and the other "DEE." Alice asks them what the best way to get out of the woods is. Alice didn't want to hurt either of the boys feelings so she shook both of their hands at the same time.

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Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Source

Bibliography
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871).

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