Month: November 2025

This was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, ‘Well! They were both very unpleasant characters –‘   Here she checked herself in some alarm, at hearing something that sounded to her   like the puffing of a large steam-engine in the wood near them, though she feared   it was more likely to be […]

“Every time you go to sleep. You don’t know if you’re going to. Wake up the next morning. And that’s just not a normal way to live.”   “Every time you hear an explosion. Or a missile flying over your head. Lots of thoughts are going through my mind. – I’m going to die now, […]

At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said, ‘Speak in French   when you can’t think of the English for a thing – turn out your toes as you walk – and remember who you are!   she did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time, but walked on […]

Here, father, take the shadow of this tree For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:   If I ever I return to you again, I’ll bring you comfort. If I ever     The preservation of life. Superseded all concerns. Over land. “I just don’t want people to die.”   “Not the […]

At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said, ‘Speak in French   when you can’t think of the English for a thing – turn out your toes as you walk – and remember who you are!   she did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time, but walked on […]

At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said, ‘Speak in French   when you can’t think of the English for a thing – turn out your toes as you walk – and remember who you are!   she did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time, but walked on […]

This time it was a White Knight. He drew up at Alice’s side, and tumbled off his horse   just as the Red Knight had done: then he got on again, and the two Knights sat and looked at each other   for some time without speaking. Alice looked from one to the other in […]