“Now! Now!” cried the Queen. “Faster! Faster!” And they went so fast that they seemed to skim through the air, hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground breathless and giddy.
The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, “You may rest a little, now.”
Alice looked round her in great surprise. “Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as it was!”
“Of course it is,” said the Queen. “What would you have it?”
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else–if you ran very fast for a long time as we’ve been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to go somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”
About Directions
All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera glass. At last he said “You’re traveling the wrong way,” and shut up the window, and went away.
Lewis Carroll — Through the Looking-Glass
Leseliste (3)
Die Leseliste. Leseliste, Leseliste… Leseliste! Leseliste. Leseliste-Leseliste-Leseliste. Aber mal ernsthaft: In der Familie habe ich das Amazon-Wunschliste-Prinzip eingeführt. Vollgestopft mit Büchern. Was nun bedeutet 2014 wird ziemlich abwechslungsreich. Eigentlich super, wenn man von außen getriggert wird jetzt dieses Buch zu lesen das man sich nie selbst gekauft hätte. Na, irgendwann schon, aber im Moment ginge das ja gar nicht. Zu wenig Zeit. Ach, und überall Bücher. So viele Bücher. Wer soll die denn alle lesen? Gut, fang ich halt mal an…
2013 im Schnelldurchlauf
Liebste Leserinnen, liebste Leser,
huch, das war also 2013. Sehr interessant und lehrreich. Um es kurz (TL;DR) zu sagen: das beste Jahr bis jetzt.
Die erste eigene Wohnung ist vorwiegend fertig. Die Umstellung von fast 10 Jahren WG-Leben auf eine eigene Wohnung war einfacher als gedacht, auch wenn es 8 (ja: A-C-H-T) Monate gedauert hat die Inneneinrichtung aufzustellen. Kochen macht nach wie vor riesig Spaß; sogar der vegane Ausflug war lehrreich: davon werd ich zu fett. Traurig, aber wahr.
About Essence
‘I could tell you my adventures — beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’
‘Explain all that,’ said the Mock Turtle.
‘No, no! The adventures first,’ said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: ‘explanations take such a dreadful time.’
Lewis Carroll — Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Weihnachtsgrüße an die Nachbarschaft
About Alice
The queerness of nonsense language and the bizarre rules and regulation the creatures try to impose on Alice tell us much about the terrifying arbitrariness of the world she has to operate in. One of the great appeals is that […] they dramatise the puzzling nature of identity in a world dominated by rules and rulers that remain obstinately unpredictable and indecipherable.
Hugh Haughton — Introduction to Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass