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Culture
“I do wonder what can have happened to me! When I used to read fairytales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!”
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Recreation
“There was no ‘one, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half-an-hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out, ‘The race is over!’ and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, ‘But who has won?'”
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Food & Drink
“However, this bottle was not marked ‘poison,’ so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.”
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Romance
“‘The game’s going on rather better now,’ she said by way of keeping up the conversation a little.”Tis so,’ said the Duchess, ‘and the moral of that is–‘Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!'”
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Kids
“… an old crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter, ‘Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!’ ‘Hold your tongue, Ma!’ said the young crab, a little snappishly. ‘You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!'”
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Everyday
“Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.”
Staff picks were contributed by Davina Baum, Sara Bir, Greg Cahill, Gretchen Giles, James Knight, Joy Lanzendorfer, Patrick Sullivan, David Templeton, and M. V. Wood. Quotes are from Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland.’
From the March 20-26, 2003 issue of the North Bay Bohemian.
