Author: Kurama

‘Kitty, can you play chess? Now, don’t smile, my dear, I’m asking it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now,   you watched just as if you understood it: and when I said “Check!” you purred!   Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn’t been […]

They placed themselves close to where Hatta, the other Messenger, was standing watching the fight,   with a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.   ‘He’s only just out of prison, and he hadn’t finished his tea when he was sent in,’ Haigha whispered to Alice:   […]

But the provoking kitten only began on the other paw, and pretended it hadn’t heard the question.     We’re working. Working, working… But we can see spring. As we walk to work…   And we’re holding on!!! And we pray for our victory… And we pray for our victory… And we’re holding on!!!   […]

This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so, It is a chance   which does redeem all sorrows That ever I have felt. This feather stirs; she lives!     An ‘orcs’ drone attack. On a market. An ‘orcs’ drone attack. On a market.   In southern Ukraine. Has killed five people. And injured […]

‘Why do you sit out here all alone?’ said Alice, not wishing to begin an argument.   ‘Why, because there’s nobody with me!’ cried Humpty Dumpty. ‘Did you think I didn’t know the answer to that? Ask another.’   ‘Don’t you think you’d be safer Down on the ground?’ Alice went on, not with any […]

and she really did rise as she spoke, several inches; but she got hold of   the edge of the table, and managed to pull herself down again.   ‘Take care of yourself!’ screamed the White Queen, seizing Alice’s hair with both her hands. ‘Something’s going to happen!’   And then (as Alice afterwards described […]

How are you, dear child?’ he went on, putting his arm affectionately round Hatta’s neck.   Hatta looked round and nodded, and went on with his bread-and-butter.   ‘Were you happy in prison, dear child?’ said Haigha. Hatta looked round once more,   and this time a tear or two trickled down his cheek: but […]

‘I see nobody on the road,’ said Alice. ‘I only wish I had such eyes,’ the King remarked in a fretful tone.   ‘To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it’s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!’   All this was lost on […]

‘I see nobody on the road,’ said Alice. ‘I only wish I had such eyes,’ the King remarked in a fretful tone.   ‘To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it’s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!’   All this was lost on […]

‘Nothing!’ Alice said impatiently. ‘I’ve been knocking at it!’ ‘I’ve been knocking at it!’   ‘Shouldn’t do that – shouldn’t do that –’ the Frog muttered. ‘Wexes it, you know.’   Then he went up and gave the door a kick with one of his great feet.   ‘You let it alone,’ he panted out, […]