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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapters 7-12, by Lewis Carroll

The second half of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is all about wordplay and games. There are misunderstandings, clarifications, and songs galore as we are yanked, just like Alice, from one gaggle of ridiculous characters to the next.

It is curious to me that Carroll chose to conclude the story through the eyes of Alice’s older sister, whom he doesn’t name. Having been riled up in Alice’s dreamscape throughout the book’s entirety, perhaps this is a nicety…a sympathetic way that Carroll excuses us from having to experience Alice’s reconciliation of her adventures into her wakeful reality. We can ponder, as her loving sister does, how Alice may one day “remember her own child life, and the happy summer days.”

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