I've been quoting this myself more and more in recent years.
Alice is one of the great works of deep satire in the English language, right up there with Huck Finn and Jonathan Swift. Except possibly many times more subtle. I re-read the two books at least once a year. Each time they are newer and more relevant than the time before…
I've been quoting this myself more and more in recent years.
Alice is one of the great works of deep satire in the English language, right up there with Huck Finn and Jonathan Swift. Except possibly many times more subtle. I re-read the two books at least once a year. Each time they are newer and more relevant than the time before.
When you want to find an apposite quote from a text in the base canon of our culture, you can almost always find what you need by turning to Shakespeare -- or to Alice.
A mind enlivened and enriched by Alice is a mind with its guard up against falling prey to deceptive cant and malicious hypocrisy.
I've been quoting this myself more and more in recent years.
Alice is one of the great works of deep satire in the English language, right up there with Huck Finn and Jonathan Swift. Except possibly many times more subtle. I re-read the two books at least once a year. Each time they are newer and more relevant than the time before.
When you want to find an apposite quote from a text in the base canon of our culture, you can almost always find what you need by turning to Shakespeare -- or to Alice.
A mind enlivened and enriched by Alice is a mind with its guard up against falling prey to deceptive cant and malicious hypocrisy.