Even with the directions from the Cheshire cat Alice was still not sure if she was going the right way.
she made her way down a hill and came to a clearing.
One must never converse with strangers she said quietly to herself, then again nearly everyone and everything here is strange so I suppose it can't be helped she thought.
How old are you child?
Alice looked up from her pondering and noticed a quaint little man sitting at the head of a very large tea table.
Alice: Nine and one half.
March Hare: One half of what?
Door mouse: A year.
Mad Hatter: What do you get when you cross blue berry with pie.
Alice: Blue berry pie.
Mad Hatter: Of course not, don’t be ridiculous what you get is a messy math symbol.
Mad Hatter: Not at all I’m quite gay. Are you mad?
March Hare: She must be if she thinks you get pie from crossing math and berries.
Door Mouse: Ah yes but she doesn’t believe she is and in order to make something true you must first believe it to be true and in order to believe it to be true she must see it and she does not.
March Hare: Does not what?
Mad Hatter: See that she is mad.
Door Mouse: Well of course she doesn’t. She can’t see herself can she?
March Hare: No not unless she stands in front of a mirror and I’m afraid we are fresh out.
Mad Hatter: And even if she does, how can she be sure that what and who she sees is the sum total of what and who she is?
Door Mouse: She can’t.
Alice: Why.
March Hare: Because who she is always changes.
Mad Hatter: Consider this, the true nature of an object or in this case a person can not be discovered nor disguised. One can always distinguish qualities but all these qualities are different manifestations of one singular whole therefore even though she may change and show different sides of herself there’s something inside her that remains constant. But we and indeed she can only see or show one facet at a time and trying to be two or three or all at once would drive any person mad.
Door Mouse: Why do you do it?
March Hare: Build and maintain all of these facets to hide who you truly are.
Mad Hatter: By whom?
Alice: By everyone.
Door Mouse: Are you happy pleasing everyone except yourself?
March Hare: No of course not. How can you be?
Mad Hatter: No wonder you’re mad.
Alice: What can I do to stop being mad.
Mad Hatter: Why that is simple my child, choose the very best quality within your self and be that quality.
March Hare: Then you will be gay like us.
Door Mouse: Or you can choose the very worst quality of yourself and be that as the red queen does.
Mad Hatter: But I shouldn’t advise that my dear for then you will be mad all the time.
March Hare: And eventually you will go mad.
Door Mouse: Why is it you insist on an explanation of the obvious?
Hatter: My dear girl we are making perfect sense. Take march hare’s statement and my own it follows perfect logic that if you are mad all the time you will drive away all your friends and those who love you therefore as hare said you will go mad from isolation and loneliness.
March Hare: Being as you are a child you should understand all this intrinsically.
Door Mouse: But in order to understand something must it first not be explained?
Mad Hatter: Something’s yes and some things no but then again something’s once explained are usually only a persons interpretation of what they think the correct explanation is, except of course when it comes to math science and the laws of physics and chemistry.
March Hare: Did you have it explained to you how to walk or did you just do it?
Door Mouse: You knew intrinsically how to didn’t you?
March hare: Then human interaction should be the same.
Mad Hatter: Children also have an intrinsic knowledge of passions, feelings and wildness because up to a certain point that is all that they can base themselves from and yet some people view the actions of children and call it foolish or mad but in actuality it is only the child’s way of discovery.
Door Mouse: And everything makes perfect sense to them.
March Hare: Tell me something child, what doesn’t make sense to you?
Alice: Well a great many things actually.
Mad Hatter: Such as?
Alice: Well, why must one act a certain way when in certain company? Socially for example.
Door Mouse: Ah yes, now of course you are taking about what is acceptable and what is expected.
March Hare: Such a shame that people feel the need to impose their own views on others.
Mad Hatter: You are speaking of course of western culture are you not?
March Hare: Who else would I be speaking of?
Alice: Yes.
Mad Hatter: Why would you follow a culture’s Ideals and fall under their influence to begin with?
Door mouse: Because she has no choice.
March Hare: Of course she has a choice the question is why she has chosen what she has chosen.
Alice: Well because…..Because…….
Mad Hatter: Because western culture seems superior, and by emulating those you view as superior you in turn become superior is that it?
March Hare: Of course that’s it why. Won’t one want to be superior when they are faced with the two choices of being who they are or being better than they are?
Alice: Seems superior?
Mad Hatter: Yes, seems, because you can never be sure whether or not they are or aren’t and to assume so is stupid.
Door mouse: Nuts.
March Hare: Crazy.
Alice: So what must I do then?
Mad Hatter: Well it’s up to you really but I do suggest keeping your mind open.
March Hare: And if you must do something then do this…..
Door Mouse: …… believe the impossible to be possible.
Alice: What if the things I believe are impossible?
Mad Hatter: What if they aren’t child.
March Hare: The impossible becomes the improbably with one try.
Door Mouse: The improbable becomes probably with two.
Mad Hatter: If you don’t try you can’t succeed.
March Hare: You can’t fail either
Door Mouse: Come now you two any more talk like that and we will wear the poor child out.
Mad Hatter: Quite right you are come my dear would you like some tea.
Alice: Umm yes please.
March Hare: And how would you like it?
Door mouse: White?
Mad Hatter: Black?
Door Mouse: Not in a cup?
March Hare: Not in a tea pot?
Alice: In a pot first then a cup then with milk and two sugars.
Mad Hatter: Quite so, such is the natural order of things.
Door Mouse: Hatter what did I just say?
Mad Hatter: Oh sorry, tell me my child how is it you came upon us here?
March Hare: Yes you haven’t told us.
Mad Hatter: The short version if you please.
Alice: Well first I fell down a rabbit hole, and then ended up in a room with a talking door knob and a small door. Then I got all shrunk from drinking something out of a bottle, then I got all big by eating a cake, then I got small again and jumped in a bottle which sailed through the key hole. I then ended up on a beach in something called a caucus race, and then I met two little men called Dum and Dee.
Mad Hatter: Ah the tweedles yes I do enjoy those fellows.
Alice: Yes and then I got accused of being a weed by some talking flowers and met a smoking caterpillar and a smiling Cheshire cat who brought me here.
March Hare: Sounds like you have had quite an adventure child.
Door Mouse: Now what do you plan to do?
Alice: I don’t know find the rabbit that I was following when I fell down the rabbit hole I suppose.
Mad Hatter: Well no wonder she doesn’t know
March Hare: She hasn’t decided yet
Door Mouse: She is only supposing.
Mad Hatter: And that is totally the wrong thing to do
March Hare: You can never suppose and except to come up with decision
Door Mouse: You can expect something
Mad Hatter: For example you may expect to find the white rabbit if you look for him
March Hare: But you will never find him if you “suppose” you will.
Door Mouse: Yes, when one makes a decision it must be resolute, strong, and decisive.
Mad Hatter: That is the only way one can be sure that they will achieve what they set out to do.
Alice: Then I shall find him. Only……..
March Hare: Only you do not know where to look
Door Mouse: Or in which direction to go.
Mad Hatter: Is that right?
Alice: Yes. The Cheshire cat said something similar to me just before.
March Hare: Did he now…hmmmmmmm.
Door Mouse: What did the rabbit say?
Alice: He kept repeating I’m late, I’m late.
Mad Hatter: For what?
March Hare: Or whom?
Alice: That is what I have been trying to find out.
Door Mouse: I thought you were trying to find the rabbit?
Alice: Yes so I can ask him what he is late for and where he is going.
Mad Hatter: Well you shan’t find that out sitting around here all day
March Hare: No indeed you won’t
Door Mouse: So off you go. On your way now.
Mad Hatter: Ah but we still haven’t established which way her way ought to be.
March Hare: Quite right.
Alice: What do you suggest?
Door Mouse: The Queen perhaps may help you
Mad Hatter: Or she may cut off your head
Mach Hare: It all depends
Alice: On what
Door Mouse: On how gracious and flattering you are.
Mad Hatter: It is best to keep her in a good mood you know
March Hare: A lot less to clean up that way.
Mad Hatter: Monarch on high, how high thy fly, and all those who wish to bring you down, find themselves headless beneath the ground. Blood red be your roses blood red be your soil, grown from fear, grown from pain and your executioners bloody toil.
Alice: And remind me again why I am going to see her?
March Hare: To ask about the white rabbit.
Door Mouse: and where he is going.
Mad Hatter: If anyone would know it would be she.
Alice: So how do I get there?
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