Abstract

* Have you ever seen Nobody? What would your world be like if objects had no names? Can you remember what will happen week after next? How many impossible things can you believe before breakfast-if you hold your breath and shut your eyes? These questions transport us to the world of Lewis Carroll: to Wonderland, with the White Rabbit and the Mock Turtle and the pool of tears and the Mad Hatter's tea party; to the Looking-Glass country, with its Garden of Insects and the Jabberwocky and the Walrus and the Carpenter and shoes and ships and sealing-wax and cabbages and kings. They also transport us to the realm of Philosophy. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the LootingGlass belong most obviously and particularly to children, whether in nurseries or bomb-shelters. We can never forget Mrs. Miniver reading aloud to her children while enemy planes roared overhead:

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