I feel so much like floating into a world as queer and surreal as Looking-Glass Land!
I would not even mind the Red Queen‘s talking scornfully to me, being told frightening poems about the dreadful Jabberwocky, flowers that take me as one of their kind and make comments on my withering.
How provoking and puzzling would life be in such a country! Full of creatures of dreams and nightmares.
I wonder if I could get Humpty Dumpty off his wall and make the White Knight remain in his saddle.
Even I as a vegetarian would like to be introduced to a mutton joint and I would love to discuss grammar and vocabulary with Humpty Dumpty.
Judging from a linguistic or lyrical point of view, Lewis Carroll‘s second masterpiece is like a cockaigne to me. Its richness in vocabulary is overwhelming, the power of the words used in the tale is tremendous. Similarily to the book‘s being nothing more than a huge chess party Alice has to play in order to carry on and become Queen, Lewis Carroll proves once more his ability to play with language, grammar and words. And, on top of that, it is a big treat for the reader!
The normal world melting away in the mirror, becoming a silver mist, just to be re-arranged as a funny, odd and somehow dazzling fairy tale.
I hope I will one day find somebody to trip and stumble into the land behind the looking glass.
Neither would I mind to tumble down a rabbit-hole :-).
