March 19, 2005

Carroll’s lost Alice’s chapter

Filed under: literature - alexei @ 5:05 am

Alice began with a little scream of laughing, which she turned into a cough as well as she could. At last she managed to say gravely, "I can bite anything I want,"
"Not with a mouth as small as that," the Wasp persisted. "If you was a-fighting, now - could you get hold of the other one by the back of the neck?"
"I’m afraid not," said Alice.
"Well, that’s because your jaws are too short," the Wasp went on: "but the top of your head is nice and round." He took off his own wig as he spoke, and stretched out one claw towards Alice, as if he wished to do the same for her, but she kept out of reach, and would not take the hint. So he went on with his criticisms…

Read the whole of A Wasp in a Wig, the lost chapter that was to follow the White Knight in Lewis Carroll’s "Through the Looking Glass."

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