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 ...