Ralph Kramden's mate

Usage examples of alice.

At the end of the day, Alice begs him to write the story out for her, which he begins to do the next morning.

July a special white, vellum-bound presentation copy is sent to Alice Liddell at the deanery, exactly three years after the celebrated expedition to Godstowe.

The first character Alice meets is the harried White Rabbit, a desperate slave to his watch and busy schedule.

For despite their madness, the Hare and Hatter here seem to know a good deal more than Alice does about the relations between meaning and saying.

With the fearlessness of the innocent child, the intellectual and spiritual recklessness of a heedless scientist or saint, Alice takes her gigantic, apparently irreversible, leap into the world beneath ordinary human experience.

Significantly, however, Alice brings along with her a number of things from that old world above ground, the most important being her faith in the simple orderliness of the universe.

And whether or not Alice recognizes it, a big wedge has been driven into her old structure of meaning.

And with so many familiar, comforting concepts already lost, Alice naturally begins to sense her frightening isolation, her alienation from the self-defining constructs of above-ground culture.

Caterpillar also contributes to the continuing, growing antipathy between Alice and the creatures of Wonderland.

Here in fact may be the correlation between the two worlds that Alice seeks but never fully discovers.

He is the one Wonderland creature who explicitly presents Alice with a broad-based, ostensibly reasonable explanation of the chaos that surrounds her.

That Alice is, as the Cat states, just as mad as the natives of Wonderland is still difficult for most readers to admit, even to perceive.

For Alice comes from and alone represents the everyday world of her readers, which, for the sake of their existence as well as hers, must appear sane.

For Alice, like the Cheshire Cat, is now deep underground in Wonderland.

Furthermore, after being told specifically by the Cheshire Cat that the Hatter and the March Hare are both mad, Alice, when she meets them in her next adventure, remains unin-structed and stubbornly persists in her futile attempts to relate their crazy, disordered actions to her old notions of order and sanity.