#wonderland

A final word. Curious. Many years of reading many books has led me to a somewhat bizarre literary critical theory, namely that all significant texts are distinguished by the preponderance of a single word. In Alice’s adventures in Wonderland that word is ‘curious’ (In The Brothers Karamazov it’s ‘ecstasy’, but that needn’t concern us here.) The word ‘curious’ appears so frequently in Carroll’s text that it becomes a kind of tocsin awakening us from our reverie. But it isn’t the strangeness of Alice’s Wonderland that it reminds us of-it’s the bizarre incomprehensibility of our own. ↗

— Will Self

#bizarre

Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#alice-in-wonderland #door #funny #humor #wordplay

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland! ↗

— Paris Hilton

#bit #childhood #homey #kitchen #like

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#anything #because #best #book #layman

History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that benefits a laughing few. No more great works will be accomplished under the regime, because beauty is not democratic or profitable. ↗

— D.B.C. Pierre

#beauty

I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling alittle different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#change

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#inspirational-quotes #lewis-carroll #change

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#books #coming-of-age #lewis-carroll #age

Desire, the only feeling that keeps us awake, both in our dreams and in reality. ↗

— Alice K. Green

#dreams

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. ↗