Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking Glass", "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped
suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping
herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
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!'
'He's dreaming now,' said Tweedledee: 'and what do you think he's
dreaming about?'
Alice said 'Nobody can guess that.'
'Why, about YOU!' Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly.
'And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose
you'd be?'
'Where I am now, of course,' said Alice.
'Not you!' Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. 'You'd be nowhere.
Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!'
'If that there King was to wake,' added Tweedledum, 'you'd go
out—bang!—just like a candle!'
'How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder
if they'd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to
drink.
You can just see a little PEEP of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door
of our drawing-room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as
you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.
Let's pretend
there's a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let's pretend
the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it's
turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It'll be easy enough to get
through—' She was up on the chimney-piece while she said this, though
she hardly knew how she had got there. And certainly the glass WAS beginning
to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.