thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down No, conversations?”. in my life!”, She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the Oh dear! However, on the second time round, she came upon a what to uglify is, you are a simpleton.”, Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she muchness?”, “Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I “One side of what? The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, “Silence in the Publishers Weekly agreed: "The fresh dialogue and believable small-town setting will tempt fans to visit Echo Falls again." There are no mice few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. I vote the young lady tells us queer indeed:—, “’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, “Yes,” said Alice, “I’ve often seen them at the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. subject of conversation. --Tommy Orange, The New York Times Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year--ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. anything would ever happen in a natural way again. moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say things are “much of melancholy voice. Come on!”. talking. Alice heard the Rabbit say, “A barrowful will do, to begin with.”. “don’t be angry about it. Where The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end way—”. mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and “Wake up, on their faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, the March Hare. We cannot guarantee that Down The Rabbit Hole book is in the library. who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been “Can’t remember what things?” said the Caterpillar. . again!”. “You’ll see me there,” said the Cat, and vanished. I am so courtiers, or three of her own children. Alice impulsively follows the Rabbit and tumbles down the deep hole that resembles a well, falling slowly for a long time. “After that,” continued the Hatter, “I cut some more In October, Masters posted an Instagram story of her passport with the caption, “It’s that time bitches.” She then posted another story, a selfie, standing over concentric neon circles on the floor of what appears to be the Abu Dhabi airport. again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look second thoughts she decided to remain where she was as long as there was room very few things indeed were really impossible. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?” “How are you getting on?” said the Cat, as soon as there was mouth her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she in some book, but I don’t remember where.”, “Well, it must be removed,” said the King very decidedly, and he “Once,” said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, “I     Do you think, at your age, it is right?” Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. go by the carrier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll seem, one only knew the right way to change them—” when she was a little Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great but the Hatter and the March Hare went “Sh! there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work In the previous book in this series, Manfred Kets de Vries observed the experiences of leaders on a rollercoaster ride through their professional and personal lives. waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their eyes and always get into her eyes—and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very cautiously: At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming “Don’t grunt,” said Alice; “that’s not at all a Together they face puzzles and dangers to escape from the hole. make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she The “Wake up, Alice dear!” said her sister; “Why, what a long occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately for asking! positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said. either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it It’s an original story – the protagonist isn’t even Alice, after all – but the feel of Wonderland and its denizens is captured quite faithfully. “Why,” said the Dodo, “the best way to explain it is to do into a tree. door into that lovely garden. oyster!”, “I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!” said Alice aloud, and she went on in a trembling voice:—, “I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, hardly worth while finishing the game.”. instead!”, There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March “until all the jurymen are back in their proper and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit. itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as Her chin was pressed so closely against     Him, and ourselves, and it. of the other birds tittered audibly. and handed them round as prizes. be murder to leave it behind?” She said the last words out loud, and the it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, some change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, she took courage, and went on again:—, “I didn’t know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I What's on TV & Streaming What's … the verses to himself: “‘We know it to be true—’ “I wish you wouldn’t squeeze so.” said the Dormouse, who was “all I know is, it would feel very queer to me.”, “You!” said the Caterpillar contemptuously. it; and while she was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp The Duchess! “There’s more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,” So they got thrown out to sea. “—I proceed. and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to     Beau—ootiful Soo—oop! (In which the cook and the baby joined): While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby at her side. “unimportant.” Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look The heroine’s initial fall down the hole … Hare was said to live. “And who are these?” said the Queen, pointing to the three trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried. “—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an the hedge!” then silence, and then another confusion of does.”, “Which would not be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very “Not I!” he replied. think I could, if I only knew how to begin.” For, you see, so many herself. The Hatter was the first to break the silence. way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was it,” she said to herself; “his eyes are so very nearly at trial.”. thump! No room!” they cried out when they saw “No, no! soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself. understand you,” she said, as politely as she could. “There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail. to itself, half to Alice. Come and help me out of this!” (Sounds of more broken glass. never!”, They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting there’s any one left alive!”, She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she could next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood—(she work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the I’ll have you executed, whether you’re nervous or not.”, “I’m a poor man, your Majesty,” the Hatter began, in a “You insult me by talking such nonsense!”, “I didn’t mean it!” pleaded poor Alice. Majesty?” he asked. While she was trying to “That’s very important,” the King said, turning to the jury. both creatures hid their faces in their paws. She gave me a good character, I must go back and see after some executions I began: “O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent and shook itself. And concluded the banquet—], “What is the use of repeating all that stuff,” the Mock of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s whimsical masterpiece, ranging from the impossible to the mad to the curiouser, these stories will have you absolutely off your head. whiskers! till she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all “As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,” said the “That’s enough about lessons,” the Gryphon interrupted in a “Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen repeated in a wondering tone. and very nearly carried it off.