Jun

22

`Now! Now!' cried the Queen. `Faster! Faster!' And they went so fast that at last they seemed to skim through the air, hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy. The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, `You may rest a little now.' Alice looked round her in great surprise. `Why, I do believe we've been under this tree the whole time! Everything's just as it was!' `Of course it is,' said the Queen, `what would you have it?' `Well, in our country,' said Alice, still panting a little, `you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.' `A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. `Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'

From Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass


Comments

Name

Email

Website

Speak your mind

2 Comments so far

  1. steve leslie on June 23, 2008 9:43 am

    I have written in the past to this website on Alice in Wonderland quotes. This happens to be my favorite:

    ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
    ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’
    ‘I don’t know where. . .’
    ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice’s_Adventures_in_Wonderland

    It is interesting to note that Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll began his serious studies at Oxford in 1951. He studied mathematics and photography. Upon completion of his studies he continued at Oxford teaching mathematics a field he found uninspiring and in residence until his death at age 65. During his teaching he created Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and his most famous poem Jabberwocky.

    Through his photography, he compiled over 3000 images of which only 1000 survived as a result of destruction and time. By many accounts he was a bright introspective man. Alice is considered to be of the genre of literary nonsense. It can be a bit difficult reading for children due to its sophisticated rigid style and satire but the lessons learned are well worth the effort. Adults find his work appealing particularly due to the inclusion of logic, anthropomorphism and wordsmith.

    sl.

  2. Survival and Winning « FIT for proFIT on June 24, 2008 9:42 am

    […] 24, 2008 Survival and Winning Posted by Prashant Tiwari under Markets   I don’t want to copy the full post here. Iread this story on Dailyspeculations, Jim Sogi posted it there. The original words are of Lewis Carroll. Read it here. […]

Archives

Resources & Links

Search