Looking Glass, More Alice!
story source: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871)
Image: Tweedledee and Tweedledum in the woods by John Tenniel
Tweedledum and Tweedledee Notes Cont
- two fat little men
- arms around the other neck, embroidered on the collars Dum and Dee
- Tweedle around the back of the collar Alice thought to herself
- Alice asked them what was the best way out of the woods
- they just grinned at each other
- they looked like school boys
- Tweedledum: the first thing in a visit is to day how d'ye do and shake hande
- they huged each other, and held out the other hands to shake Alices hand
- Alice didnt want to hurt their feelings and so she shook their hands at the same time
- the next moment they were dancing, no music
- they became tired quickly from dancing
- asked about poetry, and began to tell a story giving his brother a hug
- Alice did not like the characters of the story/poem they told her
- the tweedles take Alices hands and lead her to look at the Red King
- they boys say Ditto!
- they didnt want to wake the King
- The boys told Alice that she is not real
- Alice says I AM real! and if i am not real would i be able to do.. x, y, z
- Alice thought they boys were shelfish and foolish
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| (illustration by John Tenniel) |
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