Reading (Notes) the Fifth
The white queen is with Alice. She strokes Alice's hair while laughing. She talks about how the fish needs to be caught and Alice thinks that's easy. Then she says that the fish has to be bought, and Alice thinks that's easy. Then she says to cook the fish, and Alice thinks that's easy. Then she says to put it in a dish, and Alice thinks that's easy. Then she says to bring it, and Alice thinks that's easy. This is a long riddle about a fish. The red queen tells the white queen to think about it and guess. They drink to her heart while she thinks. People drink things in strange ways. Alice gets told to make a speech and she gets up to do it. alice is pushed by the queens, and then she starts to float.the candles grew taller and the the dishes and silverware came together to walk across the table. Alice heard a laugh from the white queen but when she looked it was a leg of mutton. The queen called to her from near the soup, and then she disappeared into it. Guests began to lay on the table. Alice couldn't take it any longer so she pulled the table cloth out from the table, everyone and everything being thrown to the floor in a pile. The red queen shrunk down to all size and ran away. Alice caught her and then exclaims that she will shake her into a kitten. And then she shakes her and she does in fact become a kitten. Alice says that the queen should not purr so loudly because it woke her up from her area. Yes, of course it was all just a dream. Or a drug induced hallucination. But that's neither here nor there.
This story comes from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871).
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