Author: Kurama

It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on.   ‘What a thick black cloud that is!’ she said. ‘And how fast it comes! Why, I do believe it’s got wings!’   ‘It’s the crow!’ Tweedledum cried out in a shrill voice of alarm:   and the two […]

‘Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.   Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar-barrel; Which frightened both the heroes so, They quite forgot their quarrel.’     “We’re like a red rag. To the enemy. Because we’re taking […]

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 a wild beast. ‘Are there any lions or tigers about here?’ she asked timidly.   ‘It’s only the […]

First let me talk with this philosopher. What is the cause of thunder? Good my lord, take his offer; go into the house.   I’ll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study? What is your study?     The US President once again. Loomed large over. The European Union’s. Latest […]

‘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’m not a visitor, and I’m not a servant. There ought to be one marked “Queen,” you know –’   Just then the door opened a little way, and a creature with a long beak   put its head out for a moment and said ‘No admittance till   ‘No admittance till the week after […]

she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those queer Anglo-Saxon Messengers.   However, there was the great dish still lying at her feet, on which she had tried to cut the plum-cake,   ‘So I wasn’t dreaming, after all,’ she said to herself, ‘unless – unless we’re all part of […]

The White Queen gave a deep sigh, and laid her head on Alice’s shoulder. ‘I am so sleepy!’ she moaned. ‘She’s tired, poor thing!’   said the Red Queen. ‘Smooth her hair – lend her your nightcap – and sing her a soothing lullaby.’   ‘I haven’t got a nightcap with me,’ said Alice, as […]

‘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, […]

After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence,   and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no one to be seen, and her first thought was that   she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those queer Anglo-Saxon Messengers. […]