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`How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low voice.
`Not at all,' said Alice: `she's so extremely--' Just then she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on, `--likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game.'
The Queen smiled and passed on.
`Who ARE you talking to?' said the King, going up to Alice, and looking at the Cat's head with great curiosity.
`It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice: `allow me to introduce it.'
`I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King:
`however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
`I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
`Don't be impertinent,' said the King, `and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
`A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. `I've read that in some book, but I don't remember where.'
> Lewis Carroll > Alice's Adventures In Wonderland > CHAPTER VIII.-THE QUEEN'S CROQUET GROUND
teddy49 2009-05-05
...getting along with the two monarchs happens to be particularly challenging. Did curious Alice ever considered, how she was going to get out again, when she followed the white rabbit with pink eyes, down a rabbit-hole ?
vespera 2009-05-05
How should I know, if Alice did...?
Wiem za to, że ja nie rozważyłam dość zanim..., a trzeba było ( nie zawierzyć ;).
teddy49 2009-05-05
No!!!! Alice was led by curiosity, Alice follows the elusive rabbit even though she does not know what she will do once she catches him. She pursues him out of pure curiosity but believes that catching him will give her some new knowledge or satisfaction. Even when the outcome is unknown, the act of chasing implies that a desired goal exists. You just have to believe! We all grow away from the pleasures of the past(childhood), the garden is off limits to all of us, but think about the journey!!!
karamia 2009-05-05
i see that we practice our English... ;) not only thinking about real journey..... because Vespera always gives us "members of "Garnek"" opportunity of mind's travel... she is very curious of our reactions for some events and she wonders if we would fallow her cat....and where would it carry us on....so here everybody are like Alice but what would we be like in real life it depends on us... even if here it is easier to say what we are thinking and the near presence of queen or king isn't a problem for us 'cause we are honest <IMHO> every act is directed to its goals to achieve them... I write it because I want improve my English...so the question is if the existing aim determined the existence of cause or is it in opposite way...and where is the wonderland?;)
ciapers 2009-05-07
kłębek nerwów:)
