I read this book because it is one of the best example of literary nonsense. The book has scope for many interpretations. It is a children's classic yet an intellectual one. Honestly the interpretations seems to be a good read. To a child it will seem like Alice has fallen into a glass and meets various creatures in wonderland. But to an intellect it is rather different. It is evident in dialogues.
The prose is filled with poems / rhymes. Lewis Carroll mocks the english literature more often.
When told Alice that she should speak only when spoken too, she replies:
"But if everybody obeyed the rule and if you only speak only if spoken too and if the other person waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything"
Lewis Carroll is a logician. That is also evident in such dialogues.
Alice is true about Jabberwocky poem. It is really hard to understand. I have to google it to understand it. But later Humpty Dumpty seems to explain it.
The book is anthropomorphic except Alice, red queen and white queen. There is also a suspense in the story as to why all the poems, one way or the other are related to fishes.
Having said all this it was rather boring to me. Maybe because I didn't read too much between the lines. Maybe because I didn't read Alice in Wonderland to start with. Maybe because I am not an intelluctual.
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