Says Alice by Jan Edwards
In moments of idleness random subjects frequently leapfrog through my mind in rapid succession, turning subjects not merely on their heads but morphing them into something else entirely. Today, whilst making tea and boggling at the latest news headlines drifting from the radio, the process was begun in recalling the quote from Alice that runs, “ Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” (Through the Looking Glass, ch 5 .) I am a lifelong devotee of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and its companion Through the Looking Glass . I loved these books as a child and again in my teens when they were must-read volumes of the ‘flower child’ revolution, and I have loved them ever since. So when I came across a gloriously OTT reading of Carroll’s Jabberwocky’ by Benedict Cumberbatch I was delighted and shared it around with glee. In the very same week the great actor Sir John Hurt passed on, and in the plethora of obit...