Alice fluently describes the intense unreality of current political and geopolitical events

 

Through the Looking-Glass, Alice Pushes Through the Mirror

John Tenniel (1820 - 1914)

 [Science Photo Library C043/5261]

In this present state of the intense unreality of current political and geopolitical events, I am speechless. Alice manages to describe the situation I find myself in with an allegorical fluency second to none.

The Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying “Faster! Faster!” but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had not breath left to say so.

'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 puzzled Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, “Faster! Don’t try to talk!”

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 get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'

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'If I wasn't real,' Alice said--half laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous--'I shouldn't be able to cry.'

'I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?' Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

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