"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
While Alice is stuck inside the rabbit's house, the main attempt of "resolving" the situation is made by invoking the help of another character: Bill. “Where’s the other ladder?—Why, I hadn’t to bring but one. Bill’s got the other—Bill! Fetch it here, lad!—Here, put ’em up...
Last week we left with Alice all grown up inside the Rabbit's house and now we're in for one of the most iconic scenes in the book, when Alice breaks one of the windows with her hand and reaches down into the Rabbit's garden in...
Chapter IV of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland features a new meeting between Alice and the White Rabbit, who's still worried about being late with the Duchess (a character that's usually blended with the Queen of Hearts). It's another famous growing up / shrinking down scene,...
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there was a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Last week, we fell with Alice...
The Classic of Mountains and Seas is an ancient Chinese text about mythic geography and monsters. It is one of the founding books about Chinese mythology and it is said to be dated before Qin China, the first dynasty of Imperial China which spanned between...
It took me three Sundays to get here, between falling Alices, psychedelic corridors, glass tables, drink-me bottles and eat-me cakes. Today we properly step out from chapter 1, even if we already did that (the scenes where Alice grows up are, in fact, in Chapter...
I haven't done a book review in ages, which is quite weird since I've been secretly buying loads of them since the pandemic started. One of the perks of being home is that you're in when they arrive and you can take an actual look...
If you ever doubt about the suggestive power of Alice in Wonderland, just wait for a minute and consider that we're still in chapter 1 and we have already been drowned in pictures and interpretations of the striking visual images Carroll concocts in those pages. Drink...
Last week we followed Alice down the rabbit hole and I brought you quite an extensive selection of illustrations depicting her fall, at the end of which I'm sure some of you felt like Loki. I certainly did. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am86JkLRDKE[/embed] At the end of the first chapter, a...
Well, the Peter Pan series occupied me quite a lot, almost as much as the Wind in the Willows one. And after a brief recess in which I explored a quite unusual British folk tale, I'm back to Arthur Rackham's work and I think it's...
