The
original Alice, the girl to whom Carroll told his immortal tale,
was the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Henry George
Liddell, co-editor of the foremost Greek lexicon of his day. He
named his child Alice, a name of unquestionably Greek derivation,
although its exact source is unknown. Speculation runs through alis,
"abundantly"; aletheia,"truth";
alysso, "to wander in mind"[akin
to the Latin hallucinor];
allistos, "inexorable";
allos, "another";
alastos, "unforgettable";
lithos, "stone";
lis or lisse,
"smooth"; lussa,
"madness"[or alussa,
"curing madness"]; or perhaps alion,
"a land of wandering" (Wanderland?). We may regard
Carroll's setting of this girl
in these books as an "inexorable, unforgettable, smooth
wandering in the mind-another madness-a Wanderland, abundant with
the stone truth". But I digress...
Advice from a Caterpillar # 2
Alice and the Cheshire cat
Advice from a Caterpillar
Dream Child
Dream Child # 2
Down the Rabbit-Hole # 3
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Down the Rabbit-Hole # 2
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