Archive for October 22nd, 2007
Today’s Quote
“Sometimes the reality is the strangest fantasy of all”
quoting Michelangelo Antonioni’s, Blow-up trailer. (1966)
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Alice’s Evidence
” `No, no!´, said the Queen. `Sentence first – veredict afterwards.´
`Stuff and nonsense´, said Alice loudly. `The idea of having the sentence first.´”
“`Wake up, Alice dear!´said her sister; `Why, what a long sleep you’ve had.´”
“(…) and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion (…)”
“So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality (…)”
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Who stole the Tarts?
- the King and Queen of Hearts seated on their throne
- White Rabbit
“In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it, they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them – (…)”
- court of justice
- the trial
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The Mock Turtle’s Story
” `When I’m a Duchess´, she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), `I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without – maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot tempered´, she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, `and vinegar that makes them sour – and camomile that makes them bitter – and – barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know – ´”
“`Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it´”
“Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was very ugly (…) “
“And the moral of that is – `The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.´”
“`Thinking again?´, the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin.
`I’ve a right to think´, said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried.
`Just about as much right´, said the Duchess, `as pigs have to fly; and the m –´”
- lessons -> they lessen from day to day
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The Queen’s Croquet-ground
“`Would you tell me´, said Alice, a little timidly `why you are painting those roses?´ (…) `The Queen! The Queen! “
- cards
- the King and Queen of Hearts
“`Off with her head! Off–´”
“`How do you like the Queen? said the Cat in a low voice.
`Not at all´, said Alice: `she’s so extremely –´”
“The Queen ha only one way of setting all difficulties, great or small.`Off with his head´she said, without even looking around.”
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A Mad Tea-party
- a table set under a tree in front of the house
- March Hare
- the Hatter
- Dormouse
“The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: `no room! no room!´they cried out when they saw Alice coming. `There’s plenty of room!´said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large armchair at one end of the table.”
- time
” `Suppose we change the subject´, the March Hare interrupted, yawning. `I’m getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells us a story.´”
“`Take some more tea´, the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
`I’ve had nothing yet´, Alice replied in an offended tone, `so I can’t take more´.
`You mean you can’t take less´, said the Hatter: `it’s very easy to take more than nothing.´”
- tree with a door
“Once more she founded herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table(…) and then she founded herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.”
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