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The Red Queen Passage of TTLG Chapter II In Lewis Carroll's 1871 book "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice imagines passing through a looking glass into the microscopic mystery world on the other side. In chapter II she meets the Red Queen who--except for Alice--is the only being in the Garden of Live Flowers able to move about. Alice tells the queen of her desire to travel to the top of a hill in the distance. There they see, on the other side, a valley laid out like a chessboard. This prompts Alice to exclaim "It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know." Alice tells the Queen she wants to play the part of a chess piece on the chessboard. The Queen says she can be the White Queen's Pawn, starting on the second square; on reaching the eighth square she will advance to the highest rank, of Queen, herself. At this point the two begin running toward the chessboard, hand in hand, faster and faster: The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. "I wonder if all the things move along with us?" thought poor Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, "Faster! Don't try to talk!" Not that Alice had any idea of doing that. She felt as if she would never be able to talk again, she was getting so much out of breath: and still the Queen cried "Faster! Faster!" and dragged her along. "Are we nearly there?" Alice managed to pant out at last. NEXT PAGE ---- Page Menu: 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 * * TERMITE ENCOUNTERS * SNAKE ENCOUNTERS * SNAKE BITE FIRST AID * SNAKE EXCLUSION * SPIDER ENCOUNTERS * SPIDER BITE FIRST AID * SPIDER EXTERMINATION * PUSS CATERPILLAR ENCOUNTERS * PUSS CATERPILLAR FIRST AID * PUSS CATERPILLAR EXTERMINATION * Assembled & Edited by Jerry Cates. Questions? Corrections? Comments? BUG ME RIGHT NOW! ---- Ph: 512-331-1111 ---- E-Mail ---- Privacy ----BugsInTheNews * --0a0s-- |