Saturday, February 1, 2025

Alice and her perceptions

original illustration by John Tenniel


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country – and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. ‘I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!’ Alice said at last.

     - Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson, Through the Looking Glass